Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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White Flag: Going. The Princeton and her sister carriers in the task force operate around the clock. Together they can keep Panther jets, gull-winged Corsairs and big Douglas Skyraider attack bombers in the air 24 hours a day. Daylight operations from carriers are delicate enough. Operations at night require a catlike sense of touch and balance, perfectly trained crews and pilots...
...upper floors flames raced to the old women's quarters before firemen could head them off. The Mother Superior, Sister Rita Gervais, dashed in with a fire extinguisher; she never came back. The blind, bedridden and crippled were trapped. All hope of rescue went when the roof crashed and the old building blazed like a well-flued furnace...
Ever since his sister died four years ago, James Nelson Gernhart had talked of nothing but death and funerals. "Old Jim" had blown a fuse at the way his relatives tried to bury his sister: "They wanted to give her a stinking little three hundred-dollar funeral, bury her like a dog, but I stepped in and stopped that." Now, at 75, old Jim was alone and he wanted everybody in tiny (pop. 2,200) Burlington, Colo, to know that he, at least, was going out in style...
...Howard Tucker, 45, had not felt so well in years. Member of a family in which mother, sister and an uncle had died from polycystic kidneys,* she herself was the first patient to receive healthy kidney transplanted from the body of another woman who had just died (TIME, July 3). Nearing the anniversary of her landmark operation, Rut Tucker had gained 20 Ibs., was doing her own housework, even to washing & ironing, and going out evenings, full of pe. Then the blow fell...
...gambling room with a bar . . ." Last week, only three days after Bob Collins' expose, Clayton County's grand jury called him and his "buddies" to testify, indicted eight operators of the Lido and the Hunt for gambling and selling liquor illegally. Said the Atlanta Constitution, sister paper of the Journal: "We hope that yesterday's indictments are but a first step in a wholesale cleanup . . . A good start has already been made...