Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where he worked with the .sandhogs below the bed of the East River, got the bends, was revived, went back for more. He covered the Russo-Finnish war in 1940, covered the retreat of the French government from Paris to Bordeaux, then 15,000 miles and 18 months later, shot a picture series on the Philippines' preparation for war-which he sent off to LIFE one day before Pearl Harbor. He and his wife and fellow TIME correspondent, Shelley Smith Mydans, spent 21 months in Japanese prisons in Manila and Shanghai, were repatriated on the Gripsholm...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
Last weekend a plainclothesman sighted Crazy Pete and René drinking with a girl in a Montmartre bistro. René saw the detective edging toward a phone, and suspected the lady friend of betraying him. He shot at her across the table and missed. While bystanders helped the cop subdue René, Pierrot made another escape, out the front door...
...left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember the night he got it. Lou ["the lady known as"] wasn't expecting to get shot but she got over it. Last I heard she was running a rooming house up in Prince Rupert...
...already fallen: Miler Gil Dodds, Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...