Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confident that its crossroads listeners-in Anchorage, Alaska, Alamosa, Colo., Hickory, N.C., Siloam Springs, Ark.-will eat up Author Critics, whose past guest-victims have ranged from James Thurber to Lucius Beebe, Emily Hahn to Ilka Chase. KBS is doubly confident because the Book-of-the-Month is offering book prizes for the best letters from listeners. Said a small-town-wise KBS official: "Whenever you give them a prize, they're happy...
Dodds' unorthodox style had changed little since he ran his first (and involuntary) race. As a boy in Falls City, Neb., he threw a stone at Lloyd Hahn's passing automobile. When the then great runner stopped to give chase, he could not catch the chunky culprit. But Hahn recognized a future champion when he saw one, made young Dodds his prot...
...Chicago last year, Hahn and Dodds - with the Lord's help - ran the world's fastest indoor mile. Hahn plotted the race lap by lap, eleven of them, scribbled the fractional times on paper. Dodds studied them religiously. Then Hahn stood at the starting line in Chicago's Stadium, stop watch in hand, yelled out the minutes and seconds, each time his runner pounded past. At the start of the final lap : "Three-forty-four. You're behind, Gil!" The collaborating pair missed their plotted 4:06 mile by four-tenths of a second...
...Emily Hahn became the University of Wisconsin's first woman graduate in mining engineering. Several years later she began to smoke cigars, wrote a satirical guide to seduction (Seductio ad Absurdum). In 1930 she turned up in the Belgian Congo wearing shorts and pith helmet, and wrote a book about it (With Naked Foot). After a spell as a reporter in London, footloose Emily's flight from the domestic atmosphere of Winnetka took her in 1935 to newspaper work in Shanghai and an unconventional apartment in the city's red-light district. She stayed in the Orient...
...bride" to the Soong sisters. One day Emily and Madame Chiang were "chattering along like old friends" when the Generalissimo strode in. He took one look at Emily (who had sprung to attention), cried "Hao, Hao, Hao!" (Good, Good, Good), fled from the room in confusion. "Sit down, Miss Hahn," cooed Madame, smiling. "He didn't have his teeth...