Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Father of West Point," stern Sylvanus Thayer, given its final shape during the tour of General Douglas MacArthur in the '20s, and came to occupy in a West Pointer's mind, Ike Eisenhower once said, a position "akin to the virtue of his mother or sister...
...such subjects as How to Say Hello, How to Say Goodbye, How to Manage a Cup of Tea. Young Foster, as the family called him, read Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost, became a serious stripling who could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when the family acquired a small sailboat, he became an expert boat handler, weather forecaster, navigator of the coves of eastern Lake Ontario...
During the next three days Reporter Clark slept only five hours, while he wrote some 14 columns of fast-breaking news for the Star and its sister paper (morning), the Times. At the rewrite desk he took calls from 48 legmen who blanketed the city. When they came slopping into the office, he cornered them for more details of their particular beats. With an eye on the flood query wired to him by TIME, he also kept in touch with city and Army engineers and with Red Cross headquarters, dug up accounts of previous floods from the morgue. By Saturday...
Genealogy experts in London traced two new branches which relate Queen Elizabeth to William Shakespeare. The Queen, it seems, is 18th in descent from one Mary Whalesborough, sister of Shakespeare's great-great-great-grandmother; the Queen is also 17th in descent from one John Belknap, brother of Shakespeare's great-great-great-great-grandmother. Meanwhile at Sandringham, the Queen joined King George VI in a garden party for members of the National Federation of the Blind. The King, who has canceled all public engagements since his recent illness, leaned on a shepherd's staff and posed...
...furlough. Hedda Hopper and Walter Pidgeon also boosted him, and an RCA Victor agent signed him to a recording contract with a $3,000 bonus. Soon afterward, in January 1945, Mario got a medical discharge (reason: postnasal drip). He returned briefly to Hollywood to marry pretty Betty Hicks, sister of an Army friend, then headed for New York City...