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Despite the attempts of all of these rooming groups to leave politics at the door, ideology still manages to enter into the equation, often leading to hours of debate. For Adelman and Jobbins, this means loud and obnoxious dining hall conversations that make those around them “mad awkward...
...miles. He crossed it in 33 1/2 hours, the first to do it solo and nonstop. You'd think he'd brag. But Anne Morrow, who married him, recalled being captivated by his shyness. It burnished her image of his landing at Le Bourget airfield, "the picture of that mad crowd, that whole nation surging around his plane in Paris," she wrote. "I can see how they all worship him. ... His glance [was] keener, clearer and brighter than anyone else's, lit with a more intense fire." He was, she said, one of the "great bulldozers" of the century...
...Superman was the creation of Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel (writer) and Joe Shuster (illustrator). They envisioned him in 1932 and for six fruitless years tried to get him into print. In early 1938, comics publisher Max Gaines (whose son Bill would publish Tales from the Crypt and Mad in the '50s) recommended the lads to DC Comics. Finally someone said yes. From that first issue, the character was fully formed: he could "hurdle a 20-story building ... run faster than an express train ..." and still, as Clark Kent, never impress newsgal Lois Lane. The final panel seemed boastful--"Superman...
...between my blocker and my glove and she slashed,” said the Swiss goaltender. “I guess he blew the whistle before, because otherwise I would have been pretty mad if they would have given the goal, because it was definitely a hard slash...
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