Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kennedy was still in the hospital when he learned that his older brother, Joe Kennedy Jr., had been killed on a bomber raid against German V-2 installations in Normandy (a sister, Kathleen-"Kick"-Kennedy, the Marchioness of Hartington, was killed in an air crash in France in 1948). Invalided out of the Navy, Jack Kennedy hooked up with International News Service, covered the San Francisco founding session of the United Nations and the Potsdam conference-and decided to run for the Massachusetts Eleventh District congressional seat being vacated by indestructible James Michael Curley, who had just been elected mayor...
...intriguing, more familiar wife; Michael Tolan seems appropriate but not fortunate in the rather lifeless role of the professor's assistant, a role that seems to be forgotten by Huxley at the end of the play. Billy Quinn is a charming young boy, but Nina Reader, who plays his sister, should perhaps be sent back to a toy store. She intrudes on a play that is on the whole an often amusing bit of nearly nothing...
...join the Boy Scouts. Tommy's earliest interest was catching snakes at his family's summer cottage at Lake Paw Paw, Mich, and taking them home in a peach basket. ("We always wondered what happened to that snake that got away in the Pullman," says his sister.) His second interest was foreign nations. His third interest was organizing the neighborhood kids for military drill, in which he was always the commanding officer...
...Gerald turned out to be a contrite fake, schooled in his masquerade by a conniving uncle (Vincent Price) with an eye on a hunk of the estate. Peter ended up dead at the bottom of his favorite cliff, and Gerald walked off with the heart of Peter's sister, whose female instincts had flagged her long ago that here was no brother. Through all this, Old Pros Judith Anderson and John Williams could do little but stand by helplessly as the script licked two Grangers singlehanded...
Agee had a unique way of looking at reality, unblinking and with the lens-precision of the movies he loved, yet gentle-the manner of a tender realist. His description of how the boy and his sister are led to see their father's corpse in the coffin will linger with readers for a long time...