Word: lets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankfurt last week came the kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...miles away, Mrs. Hugh McDanal, 42, dressed in nightgown and slippers, was talking to a friend on the telephone. Her truck-driver husband was away on a night run. There were sounds of footsteps on the porch and men's voices demanding to be let in. She screamed for the friend to call the police, and grabbed a shotgun. The neighbors rushed in, slugged her and wrested her gun away. She snatched off several of their hoods. "We could kill you for that," one told her. They dragged her outside to watch a cross burning on the front lawn...
...could hardly have squeezed better. And on opening night last week, a jam-packed audience in the Lemonader's little opera house in the basement of the (Greenwich) Village Presbyterian Church let him know...
Eckstine, a modest, soft-spoken man offstage, lives quietly, when autograph hounds let him, with his wife June and his collie "Crooner," in uptown Manhattan. His one recreation is golf. He started playing last year, now often goes direct to the course from his last show at 4 a.m. He is already shooting around 85. One reason: he takes his own professional with him, even on trips...
Nobody did for the first half mile. But straightening out on the backstretch, Eddie Arcaro let Palestinian move up alongside Capot. It was not a real challenge; both riders had their horses under wraps. Lagging behind them was Calumet Farm's stretch-running Ponder...