Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleveland, St. Louis and Chicago, 10 in Denver. This simple fact of U.S. time zones may soon make big names out of several little-known dance bands. Last week, with Washington's curfew on nightspots about to cut Manhattan's big bands off the air at the stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis) for George Olsen and Leo Reisman; Boyd Raeburn (Chicago) for Tony Pastor...
...Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards in 49.4 seconds, faster than any human ever swam before. It shattered Johnny Weissmuller...
Ford laid the foundation for his record-snapping stroke in Balboa, Canal Zone, improved it at Mercersburg Academy. When he entered Yale three years ago, he was ready for squatty Bob Kiphuth's swimming course for advanced students. A fanatic on physical condition, Coach Kiphuth put Ford through the usual ten weeks of exercises to build belly, back and chest muscles, other exercises to strengthen arm depressors, hip-joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity...
...this prospect of more beef failed to cheer dapper, brisk George A. Eastwood, 65, president of Armour & Co. In words as sharp as a cleaver stroke, Eastwood told Armour stockholders that total packinghouse production would probably drop...
Nazi Futility. The Germans could guess again-what was Zhukov's master plan? Would he try to maneuver the Wehrmacht into a showdown battle to save the capital? Or was he aiming at Berlin's encirclement or seizure as a swift, possibly decisive stroke...