Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each other. But now they read like editorial sisters. The Enquirer threw over the Democrats to back Landon in 1936, and has supported the Times-Star's part-owner (5%) Bob Taft in both of his senatorial campaigns. Bob Taft's 29-year-old son, Lloyd, is Cousin Hulbert's understudy at the Times-Star...
...slogan "Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer" has been held in trust for his heirs by Washington's American Security & Trust Co. The bank wanted to sell the paper; it thinks the newspaper market is at its peak. Last week, Times-Star Publisher Hulbert Taft, 74-year-old cousin of Senator Robert A. Taft, indicated that the bank probably would accept his bid for the Enquirer (rumored price: $7,500,000). Said Taft: "It seems clear that the people of Cincinnati would prefer to have the Enquirer purchased by Cincinnatians rather than by some outside interests." The deal...
...admirable. Her problem is a not uncommon one, in or out of fiction: in her late 30s and unmarried, she gets a proposal of marriage from John Shipley, like herself a rich Bostonian, and the first man she ever loved. The catch is that he is married to her cousin, that all three are old friends, and that Katharine dearly loves the three children of John and Maeve Shipley...
...Cowles was a distant cousin of Owners Gardner and John Cowles of Look, the Des Moines Register and Tribune, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune...
...worldly little circle of summer friends taking their cues and comforts from well-heeled Sam and Sara Dunn, Sam's cousin Peter Cowley is a bit of a boob, but useful. Peter's job is to tame and tutor the circle's mischievous parcel of small fry in an impromptu summer school; his joy is to roam off into the woods alone munching an apple and chewing on the word of God. On one such solitary jaunt, he sees a vision, not God but a proof "that there is God, and that we matter...