Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural athlete. Her daddy taught her how to swim in two weeks. She climbed trees like a monkey and hung by her knees from the branches. She rode horseback and played golf. Skating was her own idea. From her father, who despite his invalid body worked 18 to 20 hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat...
Died. Richard Tauber, 55, bemonocled Austrian-born tenor, top-ranking specialist in light-wines-&-waltzing schmalzing; of a lung abscess; in London. Tenor Tauber skipped from opera to Lehar operettas in the early '20s, rode lightly to European fame on such frothy flotsam as The Merry Widow, sang Yours Is My Heart Alone so many times (about 15,000) that it became a Tauber trademark...
...while he is at it, but he soon cools into a stern self-critic. During the filming of Duel in the Sun, he talked -jocosely, to be sure-about out-heeling Satan and out-Laurencing Olivier. Now he says of Duel: "I didn't do much acting. I rode horses, necked with Jennifer, and shot poor old Charley Bickford." Of Valley of Decision: "My agent wanted me to be seen with a big female star. Greer's audience, he said, will be a good thing for you. It was a very good maneuver. The movie? I didn...
...some 15 miles he rode with us, his gun pointed at my head. As we rode, he and the driver argued over what should happen to me. The usual procedure, if they catch a Yahudi, is to shoot him at once. Finally, the driver said: "Look, would I be carrying a Yahudi?" That seemed to do the trick, so the assassin motioned him to halt at a side road. As he climbed out, he glanced up & down for British patrols, then turned towards me and, bringing his gun up to his brow, he said: "B'khatirkum," meaning "by your...
...friend made a formal entry by private train-but not until another train, crowded with soldiers, had tested the track. Resplendently panoplied, Tito strode into the Parliament building and marched to the elevator. Then he stopped short, shook his head and gestured with one hand. Obediently, a functionary rode the elevator to the top, descended again in a trial run. (The elevator worked for Tito, too, but stalled on the next trip, trapping President of the Republic Zoltan Tildy between floors for 20 minutes...