Word: parachutist
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...cargoes of wood pulp and vital necessities from Sweden under a secret agreement with Germany that the ships would not be sunk. McGuinness did better. He bargained on his own to carry I.R.A. and Nazi agents back & forth via Sweden, was all set to smuggle a German parachutist, Hans Marschner, back to Germany, when the government smelled...
Raiding the home of Mrs. Kathleen Brugha, detectives found Parachutist Marschner. He had been hiding there since March, when the I.R.A. helped him to escape from Mountjoy Prison. They did not arrest Mrs. Brugha, widow of General Cathal Brugha, onetime De Valera defense minister who died a hero's death in 1922. But they did arrest Mrs. Brugha's pretty daughter, Noinin. And they picked up enough evidence on McGuinness to put him away for seven years...
...eastern Mediterranean, the German eyed Cyprus, hoped to make it another Crete, a steppingstone down the Levant to Suez. To the north in Bulgaria, General Wilhelm Student, No. 1 Nazi parachutist, whipped new men into shape, ran a vast training program for glider pilots, reconditioned ground officers to lead air infantry. Perhaps they were being trained for an invasion of Britain, but a better bet was that they were headed for the Mediterranean...
South of the border the world's most belligerently neutral censorship produced an atmosphere "like an aquarium in which the water is never changed." When German Parachutist Hans Marchner skipped Mountjoy jail, although rewards for capture were posted, newspapers were not allowed to publish picture or description...
George C. Hopkins, parachutist who lighted on Devil's Tower in Wyoming last October and was stranded there for six days (TIME, Oct. 13), was accepted as a parachute instructor for Fort Benning. The Army rejected him at first because unhappy landings had knocked most of his teeth out, finally waived requirements...