Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks later Lang was the first American correspondent to enter gutted Naples-just ten minutes behind the advance British reconnaissance cars. (It's a habit with him-last spring Lang and four companions rode into Tunis twelve hours ahead of the Army, pulled up at Nazi headquarters before the last Germans had cleared...
...life of Preston Sturges might read as dizzily as one of his own comedies if it were not, in essence, so intensely bitter. On his first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
...this artillery expert helped to open a corridor into Leningrad, broke the Germans' partial blockade but did not-as accounts at the time wrongly indicated-actually free the city. Until this month, German shells tore daily into Leningrad's brick-and-mortar flesh, and its defenders rode to the front in streetcars. More than a million had died of cold and hunger since Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb's army first besieged the city in 1941. Last week, after their long torture, the survivors of Leningrad could hardly believe that the siege had ended. Already there...
...scrambled for mounts until he rode War Relic to victory over Whirlaway in the 1941 Narragansett Special. Big stables took note: J. M. Roebling and C. V. Whitney put him under contract. Atkinson's dual contracts call for around $1,000 a month plus 10% of purses he wins. His income in 1943 was close to $60,000. Unlike most riders, he never gambles...
Fighting in India, in the Soudan, in the Boer War, he walked or rode through many a space filled with pinging bullets. In World War I, German shells demolished a dugout five minutes after he had left it. Shortly after that, he was in a "Plug-street" (Ploegsteert, a village in Flanders) farmhouse when a shell came through the roof, wounded only his adjutant...