Word: heroes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South Africa is the Empire's most distant fragment sentimentally. Jan Christiaan Smuts, Minister of Justice and hero of World War I, cautioned South Africans to discuss World War II as little as possible because they "are living far away and are not conversant with the facts." No official word was yet forthcoming from South Africa's boss, Prime Minister Hertzog. Possibly none could be expected until the guns began to shoot...
...Hungarian Henlein," is serving a three-year prison term; aristocratic, 71-year-old Admiral Horthy has so little use for Nazis (although he visited Führer Hitler in 1938) that their opponents insist Hungary can become a Nazi state only over his dead body. Last December the aged hero got so mad at Nazi hecklers at a Budapest opera that he left his box, climbed upstairs to theirs directly overhead, would have assaulted them had detectives not intervened. Recent success of a book called Germany Can't Win, attacking Nazi theories of a lightning war, cheered Count Csaky...
...Olympics, the No. 1 hero was Negro Jesse Owens of Cleveland, winner of the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and broad jump. Last week it appeared that the 1940 Olympic hero would be another midwestern U. S. Negro, 190-lb. William Delouis Watson, University of Michigan senior. In last week's meet at White City, rangy Bill Watson scored 13 of the 54 U. S. points: first in the shot put (with a record-breaking heave of 52 ft. 8 in.), first in the broad jump (24 ft. 6 in.) and third in the discus...
...became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government supplies without believing he was dishonest, and-before Lillie's baby was born-drifted into a love affair with Lillie's young aunt without losing his belief that he was an honorable Virginia gentleman. Meanwhile, he was a hero-whipping his troops into superb order, disciplining them ruthlessly, winning their admiration, leading them into carnage at Port Hudson and damning the cowardly political generals who got sick on the eve of battles. But when Lillie discovered his deception, the only good impulse in his "emphatic and volcanic nature" disappeared...
...phone did ring and Managing Editor David Tarbell told surprised Jock Bellairs that he was to cover the war. Correspondent Bellairs scooped Richard Harding Davis and many another prima donna on the attack on the U. S. torpedo-boat Winslow, returned to St. Louis a newspaperman's hero, went back to covering police. Around him have been woven some of the best-known newspaper apocrypha of that newspaperman's town. Samples...