Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beecher. A great-great-nephew of Henry Ward Beecher is John Beecher, who last spring found himself so burned up about current doings that he had to let off his steam in a free-verse pamphlet. Privately printed, not copyrighted, and with no rights reserved, it is written in the great American tradition of plain speech, is fittingly* titled "And I Will Be Heard...
...Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice at the news...
...play is autobiographical, as is rumored, it is hoped that there is in the Hart family no prototype of Raymond, the Fuller's young nephew of about 12. This is indeed a poisonous character played to the "t" by Robert Readick and is probably the most amusing person in the play. To judge by the record, Messrs. Kaufman and Hart had better keep writing about their friends--of whom they have a copious number, for when they talk about themselves their pen loses its point...
Last week Harry Dalton, doling out patriotic literature from his Yorkville headquarters, found himself leading a full-fledged political movement. At a mass meeting 4,500 patriotic Yorkvillagers rallied round his Congressional candidate, Republican James Elaine Walker Jr., great-nephew of Garfield's and Harrison's Secretary of State James Gillespie Elaine. Out on parole awaiting sentence for disorderly conduct was Joe McWilliams, whom Dalton (and Walter Winchell) had dubbed "McNazi." But not even McWilliams' impending defeat satisfied Harry. He wanted to debate with him from the same platform. Closest he had come...
VERDICT OF TWELVE-Raymond Post-gate-Crime Club ($2). In the trial of Mrs. van Beer for the poisoning of her nephew, the verdict has nothing to do with the evidence. It is formed out of the past lives of the jurors themselves-among them a murderess, a religious fanatic, a Greek who pretends he was born to the Old School...