Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthony G. Scott '50, Pollano's room-mate in Adams F-21 explained last night that he had never known Pollano to take pills of any sort. The night before his death, Pollano had been studying past midnight and apparently had taken the tablets while worried about exams and depressed by his failure to be accepted at a medical school...
Died. Irvine Luther Lenroot, 79, onetime G.O.P. Congressman (1909-18) and Senator (1918-27) from Wisconsin; in Washington. Lenroot missed becoming the 29th U.S. President when the 1920 Republican Convention, which had seemed about set to nominate him as Warren Harding's running mate, settled on Calvin Coolidge instead...
While the producers of Whiplash seem chiefly interested in illustrating the varied arts of mayhem, they were not able to resist dragging in a little Moral Problem. Clark, the human punching bag, is getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves...
...Exum, then deputy commander of the 325th Fighter Group based at Lesina Airdrome in Italy, while returning from a fighter sweep over German-infested, mountainous Hungary, brashly landed his P-31D, wheels down, on a handkerchief of flat land bisected by a deep ditch, to rescue an uninjured squadron mate who had crash-landed his ship with an overheated engine...
...three years later, when he resigned from the Navy Department to accept his party's nomination (and go down to defeat) as running mate to presidential candidate James M. Cox, it was a mellower F.D.R. who wrote old Josephus Daniels: "You have taught me so wisely and kept my feet on the ground when I was about to skyrocket...