Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roland Sink, short, light, and only 19, has competed in three races this year and won all of them. His 4:17 mile in the New England A.A.U. last week made Boston sports columnists speculate that he may succeed to the crown which Dodds abdicated when he announced his retirement earlier this year. Sink is enrolled in the Naval Midshipmen's Supply School...
When it finally got started, ABSIE clicked. Operating over twelve transmitters on two medium-and five short-wave BBC frequencies. ABSIE was run much like the BBC - with similar news programs, propaganda talks and instructions for the underground, all relieved by much good music...
...This attitude implies a resolute and energetic attack upon reconversion difficulties. . . . The difficulties may appear, in retrospect, to have been short-lived and of comparatively little consequence...
When Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald died at 44, in Christmas-week of 1940, he left behind a handful of brilliant novels and collections of short stories (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby) and an unfillable gap in the ranks of Postwar I's "lost generation." Wrote Novelist Glenway Wescott, "he was a kind of king of our American youth...
Like his friends, Fitzgerald caroused freely. But unlike most of them he also produced novels and short stories with passion and vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance...