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When Al Krusac, 72, missed his senior prom in 1936 because he had joined the Army, his high school sweetheart Clara Curtis had to go with a cousin. Last week Al finally got to take Clara, his wife of 50 years, to his first prom. Not only that, Al and Clara were selected king and queen of the West Bloomfield, Mich., senior prom. Said Clara: "This prom was much better because I was with the man I loved. My cousin was stuck on somebody else, and all night long he kept waltzing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nostalgia: A Real Senior Prom | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

After his release, Moore apparently began eyeing a much bigger target: First Chicago. His contact was a cousin, Herschel Bailey, 30, who knew Otis Wilson, 30, a clerk at the bank. Wilson introduced Taylor to Moore and by last month the group included Neal Jackson, 31, Leonard Strickland, 49, and Ronald Carson, 40. They plotted their scam at meetings in a Quality Inn on Chicago's west side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chairman and His Board | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

...Hinsdale and surrounding communities, residents desperate to talk to the outside world lined up at temporary telephone booths, waiting up to an hour to make calls limited to five minutes apiece. "My cousin had a baby yesterday," sighed Janet Smith. "I don't even know yet whether it's a boy or a girl." Behind her stood Michael Derrane, an insurance salesman looking a bit frayed at the edges. "I've come here three hours a day for the past two weeks," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Graham Bell, Call Home | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

Celimene's spacy cousin, Eliante (Natasha Shapiro) is more of a ham, Despite a dress that makes her look like Miss Havisham...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Dukakis' father Panos left Pelopi for America in the early 1900s. Dukakis' second cousin Elli Petridou, who lives in nearby Mytilene, confides that Panos, then 15, left Greece against the wishes of his father, who had a store just across the water in Turkey. "Michael's grandfather sent a telegram to my father telling him to tie Panos up so he couldn't leave for America. Instead, my father got him an English teacher," she says conspiratorially. The rest is history: Panos became a doctor in Massachusetts and married a girl from the Greek town of Larissa, who became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rooting for Michalis | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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