Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a Heavy Foot. At 52, Eddie Rickenbacker (ne Richenbacher) had, almost better than any other American, spanned the gap from youthful hero to solid citizen, from daring combat flyer to successful businessman. Young Eddie went to work at twelve in Columbus, Ohio: glass works, brewery, steel mill, monument works, shoe factory, bicycle shop. The shop was also an automobile garage. Eddie learned to drive, moved on to an auto factory, studied engineering via the International Correspondence School. It was speed that interested him. At 20, known on all racing tracks as a man "with a heavy foot," he cleaned...
...Bataan. The Japs apparently do not yet have three-to-one superiority classically thought necessary for certain success. On Guadalcanal, U.S. forces have had absolute air superiority-maintained though it has been under primitive, improvised conditions. Most important of all, Guadalcanal is not an encircled bastion "there is a solid, though terribly long, supply line between it and its U.S. arsenal...
...clear for a respectable Democrat, Roger Lowell Putnam, to carry their standard as candidate for Governor. He is opposing Governor Leverett Saltonstall, whose two terms as the state's Chief Executive have been successful in cleaning up after James M. Curley and Co., in giving the state a solid financial backing, and restoring the morale of its public servants. Furthermore, the Governor has a great advantage in that priceless commodity, experience, which is so vital in a crisis like the present...
...those who can take it, The Glass Key is a hard, fast, frightening hour, with a few soft spots. Veronica Lake's special talents give inappropriate energy to a somewhat vapid role. Alan Ladd is really the whole picture. With expert writing, direction and a very solid cast working to dilute him, Ladd makes Beaumont come close to the character that Hammett had in mind-an admirable, minor-league Machiavelli...
Anyone who has spent time and money learning about jazz soon finds that even his best friends can't stand the music he has grown to love. They present to him a solid bulwark of misunderstanding that resists all his efforts to explain, much less convert. Generally this opposition resolves itself into two kinds. One kind says jazz is corny, out of date; you can't dance to it. The other kind says it's transient; you have to think to produce "great" music. The one has been blinded by tastes in popular music; the other has been blinded...