Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train at Truckee, Calif, into a Sierra Nevada snowstorm to help wait out her Reno divorce (due April 20). Meeting him in a secondhand Cadillac which she had just learned to drive, Gloria released the clutch as he crossed in front of the car. Only a cadenza-like leap saved him. Unruffled, the heiress drove him to her Lake Tahoe cabin while Manhattan friends & relatives dispatched frantic wires warning her not to marry the sixtyish conductor. Working on the side of the anti-romancers was 1) Stoky's shingles, 2) the weather (which did Stoky's neuritis...
...plan is for CBS's jumper to leap from a bomber during the first phase of the entry into Berlin, before any other newscasters are allowed to land by plane. He will broadcast from a German station if one is still in operation; if not, probably from a 60,000-watt mobile transmitter which the Army packs on 17 trucks. All U.S. networks will carry his historic broadcast...
...coordinate the knotty problem of providing "food, work and homes." The first incumbent would have to be an architect in ideas-and a nonparty man, since no one knew what party would execute his program. For a soup-tasting, handshaking "kind uncle" like Woolton, this was a long leap into the unknown. Reluctantly, and only on Churchill's insistence, he accepted...
...This leap would have scared lesser women than Mildred McAfee. She had to step into the shoes of the late Ellen Fitz Pendleton, in itself a terrifying job. Miss Pendleton had ruled the conservative New England college for 25 years and was tenderly remembered by Wellesley alumnae. Miss Mac stepped carefully. She started no revolutions. She was smooth and diplomatic, with just the right touch of tartness...
Argentine dopesters figured his chances, quickly decided that Perón, in trying to leap from bandwagon to bandwagon, might very well land in the gutter. Few believed he could win more than 10% of the votes in a fair election. But Argentine democrats were uneasy, suspecting a booby trap. From the provinces came reports that pamphlets praising Perón were flying thick as snowflakes. Handkerchiefs, buttons and mate gourds displayed his manly portrait. The Strong Man's "democratic" campaign was already under...