Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyed Larry Adler blows the mouth organ with Pierian purity, can make it sound like an oboe, fiddle, horn, wawa trumpet. Paul Draper, son of Muriel Draper and nephew of monologuist Ruth Draper, was a stuttering misfit until he learned to dance. Now Paul Draper profitably applies ballet technique and good music to tap dancing, with such warmth and intelligence that many rate him the equal or superior of Fred Astaire...
General Ion Antonescu stood on a green hill overlooking Odessa, German binoculars fixed on a covey of his Rumanian Army planes that were blanketing the city with leaflets. Back in Bucharest, Nephew Mihai, now Acting Premier in the General's absence, waited anxiously . for news of Uncle Ion's first major assignment from his Nazi bosses...
...dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, who has served a little more than a year of his seven-and-a-half-year term in Leavenworth, became eligible for parole when all remaining Federal indictments against him were dismissed by the Government, ∙∙ Hero Alvin York's 28-year-old nephew of the same name joined the Army in Chattanooga. ∙∙ Carter Glass III, grandson of the Senator, joined the Army Air Corps and was assigned to ground communications. ∙∙ Peter Gerald Lehman, 24-year-old adopted son of New York's Governor Herbert Lehman, enlisted...
While all the world was hearing of the overthrow yesterday of Arulfo Arias. President of the Republic of Panama and a graduate of the Harvard Medical School, his nephew, Gilbert Arias '43, sat quietly in his room relieved by the news that the family were all safe but tight-lipped on the situation in his home country...
...principals, with an assist from housemaid Evelyn Keyes. A holdover from the Broadway cast, elegant Isobel Elsom is a handsome ornament to the grisly drama. The others are less handsome, but just as effective-especially taut, slight, eruptive Ida Lupino, who deftly manipulates her neurotic nuances as if her nephew (Mr. Hay ward) were not her real-life husband...