Word: laning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be sick of walking Heartbreak Lane...
Along New York's Swing Lane (sand Street), where nightclubs in sorry brownstones crowd each other like bums on a breadline, an era was all but over. Swing was still there, but it was more hips than horns. Barrelhouse had declined. Burlesque was back...
Moved: Visitor Joe Louis & wife; from a fashionable Park Lane apartment in London to other diggings. The Park Lane suite ($360 a week) had its advantages-three living rooms, two dining rooms, six bedrooms, seven servants and a butler-but the Louises found it chilly...
Representing the Crimson Varsity, among the 15-odd colleges sending players to the three-day tourney, will be Captain Adam Foster, Bill Wightman, George Stevens, Lane McGovern, who won his spot on the entry list by coming out on top in an informal play-off with other squad members...
...asked permission to send planes from England in a shuttle flight to Russia in order to drop aid to Bor's troops. Moscow stalled for a crucial month, finally allowed one flight on Sept. 18. On Oct. 3, the Warsaw insurrection collapsed. The Russians, Lane bitterly concludes, stalled before Warsaw long enough to let the Nazis kill off 250,000 Poles. That made it easier for the Russians to handle the rest...