Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SUNDAY PIGEON MURDERS -Craig Rice-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two impecunious sidewalk photographers, one with brains the other with brawn, indulge in a little mild kidnapping and well-intentioned blackmail with gory results. Exciting scenes, a bountiful supply of able amateur detecting, moments of fantasy, humor and sentiment place this story far above the average...
...Tanks. On the critical front between Stalingrad and the North Caucasus the Germans smashed ahead with all their brawn and brains. Railways, supply depots and rolling stock were the particular targets of a section of the Luftwaffe detailed to pound interior supply lines. In groups of from two to 15 planes they came over, often on 15-minute schedules, led to their prey by protecting Messerschmitts. Parachutists armed with tommy-guns were dropped extensively behind the Russian lines. Planes also were dropping tanketka (baby tanks) in numbers that caused plenty of trouble unless Soviet units isolated and destroyed them...
Next day little José ran into the Caracas studio with ideas of his own as to noses, especially the nose of Tío Timoteo. Little José, it turned out, was 6 ft. 2 in. of grown-up brawn; some friend had wanted to play a little joke. José's idea: to apply the fist of José to the nose of Timoteo so hard that Timoteo would no longer give advice to Juan Bimba and Babita...
...volunteers are at present being undertaken, in order to discover what improvement they make during the six-week period of the compulsory training program. Coach, Tom Boles' stalwart oarsmen are regarded by the laboratory on the basis of more than 1000 different tests, as the ideal men of brawn at Harvard...
Simultaneous with the Varsity match, the Freshmen Crimson and Blue will toss brawn against brawn on an adjoining mat. Here the home eight is given an upper edge, especially since injured Frank French will be back at his heavyweight post after a month's respite...