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...expect good defense, pretty good outside shooting and they have two players we have to look out for: Lisa Bummel, the forward, and Sue Maloney, the point guard," she added...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Cagers Rout Brown in Tourney Opener | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...BUMMEL is what Germans call al fresco funmaking. Below, with a half-consumed banana in his mouth, is Bruno Hauptmann, with some Hunter Island friends on a bummel. None of his circle was handier at collecting bits of driftwood, none could roast sausage nearer to a turn, none could play the mandolin or sing with greater virtuosity. An Irish park guard recalled that he was also a great horseshoe pitcher. Hauptmann, the Outdoor Man, was a good hand at inshore sailing. He owned a canoe which he kept at nearby City Island . Another boatsman of the vicinity was Dr. John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...friends of Lady Cynthia who take Sir Oswald seriously is Frau Gustav Stresemann, widow of the late, great German Foreign Minister. A few months before Dr. Stresemann died, a few weeks before the present British cabinet was formed, the Stresemanns and the Mosleys went on a light-hearted German bummel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Perhaps even the Great Man was taken in. Incredible as it may seem, Frau Stresemann went about telling her German friends confidentially (after the bummel) that there was a chance, a real chance that George V would call Sir Oswald to the prime ministry instead of Ramsay MacDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Positives of Action! | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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