Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sent down to Turkey in 1915, Swing covered the Dardanelles attack. Later, crossing the Sea of Marmora on a Turkish freighter, the Nagara, he made a legend for himself. The freighter was overhauled by a British submarine. A Nagara officer frantically signaled Swing to do the talking. "Who are you?" demanded the sub commander, meaning "what ship?" Said the excited American landlubber: "I am Raymond Swing, of the Chicago Daily News." Kipling used it in his story of British subs...
...Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll (Eddie Condon; Commodore Music Shop). Unflagging attack by a good new band on a good old song...
Died. Clyde Engle, 56, for the past 15 years coach of freshman baseball at Yale; of a heart attack; in Boston, Mass. As a Boston Red Sox pinch-hitter he hit the decisive "$50,000 fly ball" that Fred Snodgrass of the New York Giants dropped in the tenth inning of the eighth and final game of the 1912 World Series...
...discovered that, once dug in, the opposing armies were remarkably hard to penetrate; but after each foozled attack the respective High Commands merely concluded that the next one would have to mass still more men, concentrate still more artillery fire. Thus dryly at first, in terms of headquarters thinking, Romains begins to prepare the reader for the terrific attack that is to come. His camera is still high enough to take in the whole front: "a continuous scratch over which [the troops] formed like a scab and at every point of which they faced the opposing lines with a ceaseless...
...silence finally falling "like a sheet laid upon the face of a dead man," the grey German assault lines straggling like smoke wisps from their trenches, slowly growing into trudging multitudes: from all this Remains turns to French headquarters, where a stiff-necked major refuses to admit a major attack, delays for hours any countermeasures; to General Duroure, shocked to the depths of his soul because a Zeppelin has dropped a bomb on his headquarters, destroying his "things"; to an expensive restaurant in Paris, where the manufacturer, Haverkamp, turns a neat deal in grenades over partridge and Burgundy. These characters...