Word: russe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left another five miles in her for Russ," said Pilot Jimmy Doolittle last year at the National Air Races just after making a world's landplane record of 294 m.p.h. "Her" referred to the plane, a fat little bumblebee known as Gee Bee 11. "Russ" was famed Pilot Russell Boardman...
...when the 1933 National Air Races were run off at Los Angeles last week "Russ" Boardman and his Gee Bee 11 were not there to make that extra 5 m.p.h. Instead, his plane was a pile of wreckage in Indianapolis and his dead body was being flown back to his Hartford home. Without him, the fastest time flown at Los Angeles was 280 m.p.h.-first time in National Air Race history that one year's speed record was not bettered the next...
Though her tale is tangled, the plot of the story is simple enough. Two girlhood friends. Marta and Pauline, not yet apparently fat but obviously fortyish, have for-gathered in Paris. Russ, an old pal, a U. S. businessman stationed in Antwerp, squires them through Belgium, hopes to join them for a few days in England. But business keeps him in Antwerp till Pauline's boat has sailed, so he keeps the date with Marta alone. They have a mildly amorous affair, with no strings attached, and part, perhaps forever. All the time, however, they are really in love...
...Marta, Pauline and Russ move about on their gentle junkets they reminisce constantly, sometimes aloud but more often, more fully, to themselves. Gradually tortuously, the anxious reader discovers their histories. All have come from poor beginnings to comparative success. All of them have been unhappily married. All of them are enough wiser than they were to be able to philosophize about it. And at the end Marta goes back to her comic strip, Russ to his job and the doctor's sentence hanging over him, Pauline to the thought of her dead children and the possibility of once again...
...After 40 years of football against North Carolina, Duke and its new Coach Wallace Wade managed to win for the first time, 7-to-0. Ever since their 6-to-6 tie last month there has been bickering between Vanderbilt and Tulane. Tulane accused Vanderbilt's Assistant Coach Russ Cohen of spite in having Tulane's Captain Nollie Felts barred for professionalism. Vanderbilt accused Tulane of booing Coach Cohen at their game. Last week, Coach Cohen announced that Vanderbilt and Tulane had severed relations, that Vanderbilt would play Louisiana State University instead next year. Tulane showed no mortification...