Word: parachutist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland...
Hannah Szenesh came to Palestine from Hungary as a child. She became a member of a collective Sdot Yam, located near the ruins of ancient Ceasarea. When war broke out, Hannah Szenesh volunteered for special service in Hungary and enrolled as a parachutist. She was trained by the British. Hannah was to make contact with Jewish members of the Hungarian resistance movement and relay certain Allied Command instructions to them. She was caught, tortured, and finally shot by a firing squad. Hannah Szenesh was a member of Haganah...
Major Arthur Wermuth, the erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan," now touring with an air circus (though he was not a wartime flyer), flew higher & higher. Mrs. Fred Steele of Denver announced that he and her daughter-a parachutist with the circus-were engaged to be married. No word came from the Filipino nurse who claimed he married her in 1941 (she's suing for an annulment). Word did come from his Traverse City, Mich, wife of the past ten years-"Well, that does befuddle...
...seen much combat service. All had been self-conscious about fitting themselves back into civilian ways. But they were feeling no pain-at least in the first stages of changeover. Said ex-Parachutist Edward Burns, veteran of six campaigns, of hospitalization for battle exhaustion: "I'm still pretty nervous, but I'll make it all right by myself. Just let the men alone. Don't go sympathizing...
Taken tangle by tangle, Knots is instructive and often amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...