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...Olympic backstroke champion. Last week she took a holiday from the night club where she was appearing in the floor show with her husband, Crooner Arthur Jarrett. In group photographs of girl swimmers, Eleanor Holm Jarrett can be identified as the one with the best-looking bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three evenings, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week finally jumped in to defend her 100-yd. backstroke...
...exactly 10 p. m. the World's third most extensive city-suddenly became the World's darkest. Over 150 battle planes- barred to Germany by the now scrapped Versailles treaty-thundered aloft over Berlin in a night air raid followed by another at dawn. Some dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared...
Such rank weeds as the late Clyde Barrow and his cigar-smoking mistress Bonnie Parker (TIME, June 4) sprang from roots deeply embedded in the darkest social soil. Loudly has the Department of Justice proclaimed its purpose not only to cut down the weeds but also to dig up their roots. Therefore last week a Federal jury in Dallas, Tex. convicted 15 grubby persons who had nourished and protected Bandits Barrow & Parker. Five others had already pleaded guilty. Given sentences ranging from one hour to two years were Bonnie Parker's mother and sister; Barrow's mother...
Which man wears the darkest colored suit...
...Play. Historically, the Continental Army had its Golgotha in the winter of 1780 at Morristown, N. J. But the hardships endured at Valley Forge, two winters before, are popularly supposed to have enveloped the new nation's darkest hour. Equipment and supplies there were in plenty. But transport had completely broken down. Technically, General William Howe and his Red Coats were bottled up in Philadelphia, but Washington's little army of freedom was depleted by more than seasonal desertions. There were no victories. Trenton, Princeton and Saratoga were many months behind. Chased from one meeting place to another, a harried...