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Chanler scandalized the school by major breaches of good form. He jumped into an icy pond (strictly forbidden) to win a $50 bet, got kicked out of the Concordian Literary Society for reciting nasty verses, bootlegged pistols to his schoolmates. His crowning escapade was a clandestine prize fight he staged to raise money to buy a motorcycle. Having primed his second to soak his gloves with water so that he could hit his opponent harder, Chanler went six rounds against a bigger boy before 150 delighted schoolmates (who paid $1 each), was knocked out in the seventh when his gloves...
...instrumentalists-including Violinists Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist, Pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi-and commanded them to join A. F. of M. by Labor Day. The alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with the Boston Symphony. Asked Mr. Petrillo: "Since when is there any difference between Heifetz playing a fiddle and the fiddler in a tavern? They're both musicians...
...managing director of Deutsche Lufthansa, the big State-subsidized air combine. Short and chubby, bursting with energy and ability, Milch as a personality might have been taken for an able and energetic U. S. businessman. He tackled a terrific problem. Germany was a poverty-stricken nation. She was then forbidden a military air force. When the Nazis got in power (1933), Air Minister Göring made Milch Secretary of Air Traffic. Milch called War Ace Ernst Udet away from the cinema industry and together they built a shadow Luftwaffe. Besides an Air Sport League they recruited the Flying Hitler...
Jews in Germany were last week forbidden to use telephones except for calls to doctors and hospitals, ordered to remove red crosses painted on their hospital roofs as protection from bombing, forbidden to enter stores and markets except between 4 and 5 p.m. Das Schwarze Korps, mouthpiece of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo, proclaimed that Hitler's gift to Europe will be a "Jewless peace...
...when it was still illegal for clergymen of the Church of England to marry.* In 1560, as Queen Elizabeth's Archbishop of Canterbury, Matthew Parker was set to draw up a list of marriage prohibitions. The resultant Table of Kindred and Affinity, Wherein Whosoever Are Related are Forbidden in Scripture and Our Laws to Marry Together stands prominently in every Anglican church in England to this...