Word: duel
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...beginning of World War II, the Eagle challenged Hermann Göring to a duel in Messerschmitts at 10,000 feet over the English Channel. "We'll see who's the biggest baboon," he remarked, but Goring ignored the challenge. Julian dropped from the front pages, sold used cars in Harlem for two years, then enlisted in the U.S. Army. He spent two uneventful years as an Air Corps sergeant in the U.S.; after the war he started the Black Eagle Airline, which never got off the ground...
...Yardlings' victory wrapped up the day successfully. In a neck and neck duel by two undefeated freshman captains, Tempe Lowrey of Princeton and Al Wills of Harvard, Wills came out a nose ahead to win. They both had identical times of of 14:48 over the shortened 2.8 mile course...
...Lodge-Kennedy Senatorial duel is far closer and disconcertingly confusing. Taftites are supporting Kennedy, Deverites in many places (Cambridge for example) are tacitly behind Lodge, and Massachusetts' sizeable independent vote is split asunder. The feeling of the Taftites toward Lodge is expressed in a letter to former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy from T. Walter Taylor, director of Independents for Kennedy, saying "after what he did to Senator Taft, we feel he has forfeited all rights to expect right-thinking people to support him this fall in returning to office." But the attack on Lodge's Eisenhower support is a rationalization...
Back in the U.S. in 1942, Scott wrote two books in quick succession, Behind the Urals and Duel for Europe. Later he became TIME'S wartime correspondent in Stockholm, and first postwar chief of the Berlin Bureau. He has also written a third book, Europe In Revolution, and is currently working on a book on political warfare...
Action claimed him from 17 to 20, when he zipped through engineering courses at the University of Vienna, joined a fraternity, got himself properly chopped about the chin in a duel, and thoroughly initiated into the bedrooms of the local frauleins. At 20, after a series of undergraduate bull sessions about free will and Zionism, he lit out for Palestine to be a "hewer of wood and a drawer of water...