Word: mannheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey Bread. The other two had a separate job. "Tiger," who had been a German Communist, had the job of spreading disaffection in Mannheim. "Paluka," a Ukranian who had joined the Free French, was to be Tiger's radio man. All three were flown over the lines. Then they jumped, buried their parachutes, established their" directions, threw away their compasses and started walking...
...Johnson was the fastest performer last night, winning the 50-yard freestyle for Weld Hall in 26.2 seconds. Frank Mannheim, a transfer student ineligible for intercollegiate competition, turned in a fast 30.8 second time in the 50-yard backstroke...
Only four men entered the diving competition and Matthews Hall's Don Sand-berry won the dive contest. Mannheim came in second best...
...Reckoning. Within a couple of hours of the blast, hundreds of U.S. soldiers sped over the rickety Rhine bridge from Mannheim in the U.S. zone to bring help. They came with bulldozers to cut a path through the debris, with giant cranes to lift twisted girders off the dead and dying, with gas masks which proved invaluable when chemical fumes threw back rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing...
Balanced Diet. In Mannheim, Germany, after a carnival owner reported the loss of "the only pigs in the world that could walk a tight-rope on their hind legs," military police got a hot clue: Polish guards had dined on pork chops...