Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER TO HANG ON. AIR PRESSURE TERRIFIC. KEPT SPINNING ALL THE TIME. TO BE ABLE TO CUT LOOSE AS SUGGESTED NEEDED SEVERAL MORE ARMS. ON THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE NEITHER BAD NOR TERRIFYING, CONSCIOUS ALL THE TIME. LIEUT. LOWREY'S RESCUE THE AMAZING THING AND TO HIM BOUQUETS. PRACTICALLY RECOVERED FROM BROKEN SPINE...
Failures. In Chicago, a court of law enjoined Steve Kolodiezski from throwing himself under a train. On Manhattan's Bowery elevated tracks, Kenneth Schracder prepared a noose, threatened to hang himself. Pedestrians cheered, urged him on. He jumped through the roof of a police car, was taken away uninjured...
...reputation will hang in the balance when the Varsity soccer team prances out onto the field tomorrow afternoon to take on a powerful, aggressive Springfield College aggregation. Not only will this be the first real intercollegiate competition for the 1941 Crimson booters but the first sizeable threat to the unsullied names of five of the starting players and their coach...
...Pablo Picasso, strong Loyalist, began work on a mural depicting that first and most ruthless bombing of an open town which was not a military objective, for the Spanish Government Building at the Paris World's Fair. His mural is now in the Fogg Art Museum, and will hang there till the 20th of October...
...office hang the originals of two creepy Daily News cartoons depicting "Uncle Sap" being seduced by the skeleton-headed harlot "World War II," gifts of her good friend Daily News Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor. Her managing editor, 39-year-old Harold A. Davis, came from the Daily News, as did several Newsday reporters. In the last elections she borrowed the Daily News idea of a "Battle Page."* Her biggest help came from the Daily News's late great promotion wizard, Max Annenberg. Max coached her on all the tricks of the trade, got her a general manager, William Mapel...