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...That Ain't Ed." The radio bulletins were enough to keep Ed's kin up all night, talking and laughing. Then they got a shock when Ed's half brother, Grover Dickenson, trudged in with a copy of the Roanoke Times. The newspaper carried on its front page a picture of Ed. Bessie took one look at the picture and began to cry. "That ain't my boy," she said. "Eddie was a purty boy, and look at him now. If that's him, he ain't got no teeth. I just know...
...first Secretary of Labor, Wilson named William B. Wilson (no kin), who had been secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers. Warren Harding appointed James J. ("Puddler Jim") Davis, who had been president of an Iron, Steel & Tin Workers local. Herbert Hoover named William N. Doak, who had been vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Franklin Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins, and Harry Truman chose Lewis Schwelenbach and Maurice Tobin...
...kin to the gossipist...
Though most of them face serious life problems arising from bereavement, failure at work or school, or difficulties with kin or colleagues, the problems are magnified in their minds. Sometimes it is an unreasonable fear that drives them to distraction; sometimes an unjustified feeling of guilt or inadequacy...
...invited to a Kinsey soiree. But some have stopped going because the emotional undertones in Kinsey's intensity made them uncomfortable. Though he drinks and smokes only rarely, to put others at their ease, Kinsey makes an equally elaborate ritual of mixing a drink. (He is no kin to the late Jacob G. Kinsey, whose name graces bottles of blended whisky, although Philadelphia's Kinsey Distilling Corp. keeps getting requests for "free sex books," and sells more whisky, thanks to its namesake...