Word: doped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right now Correspondent Ragsdale is making a swing through practically all the specialized training camps of the West. He spent three days at the glider Air Academy at Twentynine Palms -going up with the students, getting the dope on equipment, organization, training. He jolted around with the Army's new tank destroyer corps at Camp Hood in Killeen, Texas, where they had to move a cemetery to get the site they wanted. In the California desert at Indio (very hot in the shade and no shade) he saw our new desert warfare battalions being whipped into shape, heard General...
...Further Dope in Confy Guide...
...Magnificent Dope (20th Century-Fox) is home-grown Henry Fonda, playing another "Shucks, Ma!" role, which permits him to make one very interesting observation: laziness is the father of invention. His reasoning: In Piltdown days, thirsty cavemen had to run to the river for a drink, scurry back to their caves again. Go-getters didn't mind that chore, but some lazy caveman did. He invented the bucket...
From Northeastern Penitentiary in Pennsylvania emerged newspaper-and-dope-sheet Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg, a sick man (low blood pressure and heart disease) on parole. He had served 23 months of his three-year sentence for income-tax evasion...
Several outstanding performances plus a preponderance of seconds and thirds earned by the Crimson track team in winning the eighth annual edition of the Heptagonal Games last Saturday, explains their victory which upset all the official dope sheets, but not the unofficial ones...