Word: becher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Manhattan's anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader, published more evidence of Mann's political activities. It was a letter to Stalin's cultural commissar in East Germany, Poet Johannes Becher. More worshipful of Russia's boss than Pravda, Becher turns out such drivel as: "How happy must be the letter 'i' as it is permitted to form a letter in the name of Stalin." Cries he in his "Hymn to the Soviet Union...
...cantata by Becher for East Germany's Communists gushes...
...post time, the co-favorites (at 8-1) were Irish Jumper Shagreen and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Arctic Gold, his fifth Grand National entry. But at the fifth jump (a 5-ft. fence) Shagreen tumbled. Arctic Gold, who took the lead at the sixth-treacherous Becher's Brook-came a cropper two jumps later...
...since the Prince of Wales's (later King Edward VII) Ambush II in 1900. At the first barrier, six horses had gone down in a thundering crash, and Monaveen was up with the leaders. One more went down at the second, four more at the dreaded Becher's Brook. Monaveen stayed in the lead. Then his foreleg nicked the 14th fence. On the second time around the grueling 4½-mile course, Monaveen stumbled again...