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...assembled a suit of civilian clothes.* As to the actual escape, stories differed. One version said that for months, when the General and his fellow prisoners were given airings in the nearby fields, they casually picked strands of hemp, until finally they had enough to weave a long rope. Another version, attributed by Vichy to the General himself, was that his wife had sent him lengths of thread in every gift package, and these he had woven into rope...
...boat was puttering past the subway bridge, a man attempting suicide leaped from the causeway into the water, and the occupants of the launch hurried to try and snatch him from the depths. After William J. Bingham, Director of Athletics, lost hold of the man, and a rope thrown from the bridge fell too short, the water-soaked victim went under twice. But William Atchley '43, assistant crew manager, pulled him not the best before he sank for the third time, and the shivering death-defler was taken to the Municipal District Commission...
...Stravinsky, the choregraphy by Balanchine, the costumes by Norman Bel Geddes. But New Yorkers weren't swooning over a new ballet; they were in Madison Square Garden watching 50 elephants in pink panties cavort at The Circus. They were gaping at bright blue and red tanbark, girl rope climbers who looked like Ziegfeld chorines, wedding-cake beautifications, Peter Arno drawings in the programs, refreshments passed on china platters. If they were old or sentimental enough, they were wondering what had become of the pink lemonade, the gold-toothed lady bareback rider, the gaudy, dirty, bewildering oldtime magic...
...charged with sedition for allegedly sending a letter to officers and soldiers inciting them to revolt. Wrote White Shirt Christians: "Does our Commander in Chief have ideas or is he just the world's greatest humbug?" In another handbill, Christians wrote of the President: "Some neck-for a rope...
...that program sounds impossible, CCC can point out that having no rope for the U.S. Navy (which normally scorns U.S. hemp) is still more unthinkable...