Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Girl Who Broke. At one point Idaho's Senator Herman Welker introduced the subject of Hinton's sister, Joan. She too went to China, and she and her American husband, Irwin Engst, still are working for the Communists on a dairy farm somewhere in Inner Mongolia...
Beggars & Rags. The Senators asked William Hinton if he had met his sister Joan during his years in China. The witness declined to answer, "on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment...
...cancer researchers, is that he draws cancer victims away from conventional treatment, making eventual cure impossible. But Hoxsey goes right on making new friends. No friend is louder or more loyal than Pennsylvania State Senator J ohn J. Haluska, who plumped for Hoxsey after his 35-year-old sister took the tonic last summer. "I don't care whether it's cough syrup or pure mountain water." she told him. "That's what I owe my life...
...down before he can testify against the tyrant (Lee J. Cobb). The Orestean hero (Marlon Brando), an ex-pug who has-not quite unwittingly-served as bait in the murder trap, is pursued by the Furies of remorse in the singularly amiable form of the dead man's sister (Eva Marie Saint) and in the sterner shape of a waterfront priest (Karl Maiden...
...PENNY THAT ROLLED AWAY, by Louis MacNeice (Putnam; $2.25), is a coin's-eye view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...