Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Much of the zing is supplied by pretty, blonde Christina Ohlsen, 25, who graduated to a RIAS microphone by way of dancing school, a Nazi concentration camp and postwar German cabarets. Christina comes on the air pretending to be a newsboy, hawking the day's headlines in rhymes which frequently poke fun at the Communists. Her most popular tagline, delivered in a knowing, childish singsong, comes at the end of her report of any pompous Communist proclamation: "Das versteh' ich nicht," she says wonderingly, "das versteh' ich wirklich nicht! [That I don't understand, that...
When the pilot is lying down, his blood tends to stay put because most of his body is on the same level. Air Force doctors have proved that a pilot in the prone position bed can take from ten to twelve "Gs"* of centrifugal force without blacking out. Four and one half Gs is about all a sitting pilot can take without a cumbersome G-suit...
...Air Force has tested its pilot bed only on the ground and in the bombardier's compartment of a B17. Eleven pilots have ridden in it snugly battened down for eight hours each. They report that the bed is comfortable, but complain of boredom because of restricted movement...
...worst came to worst, Bill DeWitt could always sell some ballplayers or a ballpark-or he could pack up the Browns (and their league franchise) and move them to another city. Since ball clubs began to travel by air, sportwriters have talked about the possibility of moving the franchise to the Pacific coast. Many of them feel sure that St. Louis would not support that much baseball, even if the Browns were a first-division club...
...Washington's snowy Cascade Mountains last week, 14 crack ski jumpers mounted to the top of the runway at Olympian Hill to try for the Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...