Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn one morning last week, bronzed, begoggled Ab Jenkins, 50-year-old mayor of Salt Lake City, strapped a crash helmet under his grease-smeared jowls, stepped into his airplane-motored speed car, set out on his favorite tour: around a 12½-mile circle on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats...
...recently organized Committee for the Recognition of Class Room Generals, continuing its policy of the past few weeks, has sent to Harry Gideonse, President of Brooklyn College, a helmet so that he might "take more personal action in saving 'civilization as we know it.'" According to William Rossmoore '40 and Stanley Geller '40, the Committee's action was taken because Gideonse suppressed the Brookleyn chapter of the American Student Union and also the Peace Congress for violations of a minor regulation...
...Arthur Asquith, discovered it and showed it to Winston Churchill. Impressed, War Lord Churchill offered Walker the post of Expert in Light Armour to the Forces. Dr. Walker declined. "As I remembered that it had taken two years of agitation to induce the military authorities to accept the steel helmet, I . . . returned to my Field Ambulance." Back to bureaucratic limbo went the breastplate...
...Cartoonist Percy Crosby (Skippy) went U. S. patent No. 2,197,174 for a helmet designed to prevent brain concussions. Shaped like a Tyrolean yodeler's hat, its crown rests on powerful springs which are attached to the brim. How it works: bullet comes, crown gives, bullet is deflected, crown snaps back, war goes...
When it was announced, after all this fuss & feathers, that both Conductor Leinsdorf and Tenor Melchior would perform last week in Gotterdammerung, operagoers jammed the Metropolitan to see the fun. Tenor Melchior was so nervous that he got his eagle-winged Norse warrior's helmet on backwards, but he sang as though he was out to bust his buttons. At the end of the act the audience clapped coldly for Tenor Melchior, gave Conductor Leinsdorf an ovation...