Word: brother
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small office, wrote out his resignation, sent it to the television studio, turned his head to the wall and sobbed. All that he asked in the note was an armed guard to see him and his wife and three children through the mob to the home of his brother-in-law. As the resignation was read over the air, Castro deadpanned: "Let him go if he wants to, like any other citizen...
Victorian Creed. Thomson's entry into the big time marked the retirement of one of the grand old peers of British journalism-James Berry, Viscount Kemsley, 75, who, with his brother William (later Viscount Camrose), came out of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, at the turn of the century, launched Advertising World in 1901, began building a chain that eventually reached a maximum circulation of 24 million (1947). Once called "the greatest debenture salesman in British journalism," Kemsley nevertheless paid close attention to editorial matters, followed a Victorian creed: "I have no intention of competing for circulation by appealing...
Kemsley, who ended his partnership with his brother in 1937, began selling off chunks of the Kemsley newspaper empire in 1952, when Lord Rothermere bought the Daily Graphic (now the Daily Sketch). Concentrating on his Sunday Times, Kemsley preserved its status as Britain's leading Sunday paper. Wrote the competing Observer last week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors...
Born at what he calls a "wide place in the road" named Fair Play, S.C. (40 miles southwest of Greenville), Heller is the son and grandson of physicians, had a brother and an uncle with M.D.s. Yet when he entered Clemson College at 16, Rod went into engineering. He switched to the family tradition in time to get his M.D. from Atlanta's Emory University in 1929. Joining up with the U.S. Public Health Service in 1931, he began hopscotching around on two-year tours of anti-VD duty. In 1934 Dr. Heller married Susie May Ayres, daughter...
Petronius' story follows the happenstance progress of three impure pilgrims: the freeloader Encolpius (whose name means, roughly, "the crotch''); the effeminate boy Giton. who is Encolpius' "brother" ("frater" to Romans had a double meaning of homosexuality); and Ascyltus. who lusts after Giton. With a straight face. Petronius defended the propriety of his romance...