Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Friends smuggled Göring into Austria and Karin, though ill, went with him. Hitler was a forgotten captive, writing Mein Kampf in prison, and Göring was near the end of his rope. In Italy he tried to interest Fascists in Naziism, failed to impress Mussolini. Back in Sweden, he took to morphine (which he had probably first used under the stress of wartime flying), was committed to an asylum. The psychiatrist who treated him diagnosed him as an "extremely dangerous asocial hysteric." When he was released, Karin's child by her first husband was not allowed...
Hollywood's No. 1 box office bait in 1939 was not Clark Gable, Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, but a rope-haired, kazoo-voiced kid with a comic-strip face, who until this week had never appeared in a picture without mugging or overacting it. His name (assumed) was Mickey Rooney, and to a large part of the more articulate U. S. cinemaudience, his name was becoming a frequently used synonym for brat...
...even more remarkable was Rick's performance in the 440 later in the evening. He was timed in 4:52.4, the same as Yaleman Choutean's winning time, so close was he to the Blue Sophomore at the finish rope. The race between the two was one of the closest over witnessed in the Payno Whitney Pool. At no time during the 17 1/2 laps was there more than a foot's difference between their outstretched arms. Cutler managed to maintain an influltesimal lead for the greater part of the race, but after his 16th lap turn, which was slower...
...Chiang Kai-shek himself-not the "Chungking Government"-no. A remote chance for peace (for a time) lies in the Japanese withdrawing to the five occupied northern provinces, the Chinese conceding them. But if the war drags on-for six months, a year, two-Japan may slip off the rope to the end of which she has so nearly come. If that happens, if Japan's military economy collapses, then all Hirohito's horses and all of his men will not put Japan back together again...
Although the line-up cannot be definitely known until just before each event, Cutler is expected to swim the furlong against Parke. Both men have done better than 2:15, but the Crimson leader is favored to slip under the finish-rope first. If vande Weghe competes in the 50 against Jim Curwen the result can hardly be predictable, though Princeton should collect at least a second and a third here...