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Word: brother (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack (N.J.) Board of Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Good Experience | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...with any clarity from Adolf Hitler's shadowy private life: his youthful niece, Geli Raubal, and Eva Braun. Both died violent deaths. When last March Hitler's sister, Paula Wolf, casually mentioned to a German reporter that she had recently visited with "perhaps the only woman my brother ever loved," Günter Peis's news instincts were understandably aroused. The woman turned out to be Maria Reiter, blonde, buxom and 49, now living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, Maria finally gave Peis the long-kept secret of her uneven romance with Hitler from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Uneven Romance | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Soon afterward, Fred became a teacher at a Catholic school for boys. After a quarrel with the brother superior, he stole the school's station wagon, learned to drive as he went skidding down to Boston, got drunk and woke up the next morning as a buck private in the U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...King's next challenge to the brother who had saved his throne came with the recent arrest of Mohammed al Jasir, the scholarly editor of Riyadh's weekly newspaper Al Yamamah (The Dove), who had been casually tossed into jail, in the old way, by King Saud. Feisal heatedly protested that such arbitrary actions infringed on his new powers as Interior Minister. The King stared at him through his thick glasses, lumpily stood his ground. Feisal turned in his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Row In the Royal Family | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Susan Kohner, 22, was born to the Hollywood purple. Her father, successful Agent Paul Kohner, provided a Bel Air home brightened with a portrait of Susan and her brother painted by a family friend, Diego Rivera, and other baubles to match. From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited liquid, tip-tilted eyes of striking beauty. As a Chinese girl on TV (Schlitz Playhouse), an Italian girl in To Hell and Back, a neurotic mulatto in Imitation of Life, she began her multicolored career as one of the most versatile young actresses in town. Her latest picture: Walt Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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