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...visiting correspondent was the heftiest and one of the brassiest women of the Washington press corps, and she covered Germany like a rough-riding Valkyrie. She descended on Berlin via the airlift, sitting on bags of coal. She slept in Hitler's airraid bunker, interviewed General Clay, went shopping with a German hausfrau on the Kurfurstendamm. In Munich's America House, where she made a speech, Correspondent Esther Van Wagoner Tufty caused the biggest stir of all. "They thought I was Emmy Goring!" said she. "I must say I resented that. Hell, she's at least...
Among Manhattan sports editors, the Hearstian Mirror's mustached Dan Parker is the heftiest (260 Ibs.), the most cynical about fight promoters (he keeps needling their racket), and on good days, the poor man's Eustace Tilley.* Dan Parker had some fun with the Bronx tongue in his Dialectician's Dictionary. Samples...
...Heftiest Jumbo of them all is tackle Charlie Berndt, who strains the scales with a fighting weight of 235. The 6 foot 4 1/2 Sophomore a former Medford High star is remarkably fast for a man of his tonnage. Flanking him at end is fleet Phil Barnhart, who is also New England, intercollegiate champ in the 220-yard dash...
engine builders had turned out aircraft power plants far more powerful than Wright Aeronautical Corp.'s 2200-h.p. Cyclone 18, the heftiest yet revealed. This week the U.S. Army Air Forces let one of its other builders reveal what one of the new and bigger engines is like...
Last year Philadelphia's pink and twinkly Music Publisher James Francis Cooke, whose Oliver Ditson Music Co. had turned many a penny publishing Songwriter Bland's bestseller, began to wonder who James A. Bland really was. In vain he consulted the heftiest musical encyclopedias. Even Ditson's oldest officials had no recollection of any James A. Bland...