Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coleman Hawkins was the real hero of the day, practically saving the session singlehanded at a time when it looked as if it would be a ghastly mess. Without any apparent warming up, the "Hawk" launched into a terrific chorus and thawed out the audience. He played very restrainedly, without forcing his tone as he did when he first returned from Europe. As for the "Hawk's" ideas, they're more than any five men have the right to have...
...Road's end last week stood a wiry man with pale, piercing eyes, hawk's nose and cadaverous cheeks. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had traversed half the continent of Africa, leading a victorious army on the heels of a beaten one. To his troops he had proclaimed: "Nothing has stopped us. ... Nothing will." This week he was in Tripoli and driving...
...curious, flamboyant streak. Somewhere along the way he picked up a German officer's suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left...
Died. Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, 74, one of the world's big munitions makers; in Paris. Hawk-nosed, trim-mustached, elegant, cynical, softspoken, he was the archetype of the cinethriller version of a mysterious merchant of death. He impartially sold arms to most of the warring nations of the world. He transformed France's famed Schneider et Cie. (Le Creusot) into an international power early this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financi...
...Feathered Friends. Over Manhattan a chicken hawk peeled off, dived into the Bowery, strafed a stooping street cleaner from the rear. In Kansas City, Mrs. Roy Jordan stepped outside and transferred to her refrigerator a covey of 15 quail who had broken their necks trying to fly through the closed kitchen window. In Hollywood, Actress Jeff Donnell introduced the seeing-eye owl-a pressagent's idea of an efficient dimout guide for people in no particular hurry...