Word: borotra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's Jean Borotra, the Bounding Basque of tennis fame, bounded down a Tirolese road, accompanied by a bribed German guard and romped into the ranks of an American battalion. A few moments later he and the Americans raced up the Alpine road again to picturesque Itter Castle. There, waiting to be liberated, was a batch of Hitler's most prized captives. Near the Brenner Pass and in southern Germany U.S. troops released others. Some of the freed...
Veteran Tennist Jean Borotra, now Vichy's Sportführer, forbade "Hello, ma, I'm glad I won," and all other remarks into radio microphones by sports winners. His reason: they hurt the dignity of sport. . .Lumbering onetime Fisticuffer Primo Carnera, who tried cinemacting for a while, has taken up wrestling. . . A Pittsburgh judge gave Heavyweight Billy Conn a suspended sentence and a lecture for speeding and driving without a license. . .Corporal Hank Greenberg, ex-Tiger outfielder, was arrested for speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago...
...Lewd. The day of "fat, puffing State employes" was also past, according to Le Petit Parisien, which announced the introduction of compulsory physical training. To Vichy, after escaping the Germans three times as an artillery captain, went France's famed "Bounding Basque," tennis star Jean Borotra, to become Secretary General of Physical Education. Insisting that he is no politician, only a sportsman, Borotra announced that physical education would henceforth be as important as intellectual education, surmised that his job would be difficult because of the nation's "softness and previous indifference...
Other Ministries: Finance, Senator Yves Boutillier, who had been adviser to the aging Joseph Caillaux; Justice, Raphael Alibert; Youth & Family, Jean Ybarnégaray, a Basque Rightist Deputy, who named his fellow Basque, Tennist Jean Borotra, director of amateur sports; Agriculture, Agriculturist Pierre Caziot; Communications, Corsican Deputy François Piétri; Colonies, Martinique-born Senator Henri Lémery; Public Instruction, Senator Emile Mireaux, Industrial Production & Labor, onetime Popular Frontist Réné Belin. Though none of these men was distinguished for love of The Republic, they had a case to make...