Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like an aging but still truculent eagle, San Francisco's Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini feels an urge for solitude, flaps eastward to survey his Pacific Coast empire from a distance. In the past these vigils were often disturbed by the sight of an enemy and Giannini's instinct for plummeting into violent battle. But last week in Palm Beach the 75-year-old Giannini sunned his scars in peace, lazily observed the movements of lesser birds, and gazed west with a benevolent softening of his hooded eyes...
This decision was based on the anticipation of a younger, less responsible student body a greater turn-over in the paper's staff and a definite desire to keep Service News policies and standards instinct from those of the CRIMSON...
...about it, a woman whose husband's death leaves her with the double problem of her sons and her sexiness is in quite a spot. Even if the latter brings on George Brent and the former are the sort who can jitterbug at the age of ten, the maternal instinct makes the conflict near to insoluble. In fact, if it weren't for the ingenuity of the script writer, Barbara Stanwyck might have lost her boys, her reputation, and her mind, as well as her heart...
Died. Cornelius Johnson, 29, Negro high-jumper, 1936-41 co-holder (with Negro Dave Albritton) of the world's record; after a two-week bender in San Francisco. His effortless victory in the 1936 Berlin Olympics drew from a Nazi sportswriter the nettled tribute: "In blood and instinct, Johnson is still living in a state of innocence in Paradise...
Bells & Boos. One mighty haymaker was the making of Rocky. He pulled it out of center field last March, knocked his opponent groggy. The confidence gained from that wallop gave him the same killer instinct that made Stanley Ketchel famous. He promptly made bells ring in the noggins of the late Bummy Davis, fading Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane, drew $100,000 gates...