Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War II, Europe was set abuzz last week by the claimed discovery of a living child of Adolf Hitler. While most such previous assertions have been quickly discredited, the source of the latest report was Werner Maser, 55, a respected West German historian and Hitler biographer (Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality). Maser, who plans to include the full story of his discovery in a new edition of his book later this year, has so far declined to provide full documentation for his claim. But he gave TIME some fascinating details about the man he claims is Hitler...
...wasn't. Surprising everybody in the Bowl (including, probably, himself) Sullivan had the audacity to abandon his intended mission and run 65 yards around right end for the touchdown that buried the Crimson and made him an answer to a trivia question, not to mention an instant Eli legend...
...went ahead anyway. "I just ate Cream of Wheat beforehand, and took some extra precautions," he relates. The feat caught the eyes of several skin diving magazines, who noted that it was the first time anyone has swum under ice without scuba gear. (Historians now dispute the legend that Houdini pulled the same stunt in 1906. Sommers is obviously not eager to repeat the feat...
...Road to Bingdom began May 2, 1903, in Tacoma, Wash. Bing was the son of a devout Roman Catholic. His real name, Harry Lillis Crosby, refused to stick. According to one legend, he so loved a comic strip called the Bingville Bugle that he became Bing himself. He also became a dedicated sportsman (football, baseball, fishing), a good singer in a house full of singing, and a conspicuous truant. He nevertheless went to Gonzaga University in Spokane as a law student. The only useful part of the course, which ended with his first amateur musical success, was public speaking. Said...
...Modern biographers have before them a daunting monument, the quotable Johnson of old age, living in picturesque squalor, holding forth on any topic. He was "the greatest talker in the history of the English language," Bate claims. And how simple it would have been just to elaborate on that legend: the proud writer dining behind a screen because he was ashamed of his tattered clothes; the compulsive walker in the streets of London who had to touch each lamppost he passed by; the bizarre figure whom Hogarth at first mistook for "an ideot . . . shaking his head and rolling himself about...