Word: daredevil
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...Emmy Sonnemann. Whatever she is, she does not look Jewish. During the War she clerked in a Hamburg candy shop. Göring then was a national hero, one of Imperial Germany's greatest fighting aces, finally Commander of the late, great Baron Manfred von Richthofen's daredevil escadrille. Three years ago Emmy was introduced to Hermann by Adolf...
...others went unrecorded as respectable citizens had their first terrifying contact with crime and kept mum about it. Last week a new chapter in the history of Midwest crime was being forced upon them, a chapter less terrifying to most men individually, but one that reached unmatched heights of daredevil ruthlessness. It was the third chapter in the career of Desperado John Dillinger...
...gradually unveiled. In a novel he has space enough for his tortuous unraveling, but many of these short stories fail to convince simply because the reader has not had sufficient time to become bemused. The four best stories stand out from the rest like so many painted thumbnails: Three daredevil neurotics with a condemned airplane, no licenses, tour country towns putting on a crazily dangerous show for a living. A Southern officer and his Negro servant, on their way home from the Civil War, stop for the night at the wrong Tennessee mountain cabin...
...intrepid," dignify his story by two columns of copy, let it at least spare Science, and list such items under Miscellany. I will bet a TIME subscription for Mark Edward Ridge on Hank Schafer (TIME, March 19, p. 66) to complete successfully and without injury "black-browed young daredevil" Ridge's bungled show...
...daredevil then wangled a flight in a National Guard plane. He jumped despite the profane imprecations of the pilot, dropped 1,000 ft. before pulling the ripcord, landed unhurt on the frozen Charles River, was arrested by police for leaving an airplane "for a feat of daring." First victim of the Massachusetts law which forbids any but emergency parachute jumps, he was given a three-month sentence which was later suspended...