Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Student apathy, chimera of the Student Council and the winter-leanness of H.A.A. cash customers melted under the charms of grid personalties Clarence "Chief" Boston, Wally Flynn, Emil Drvaric. Under the intense coaxings of pep provocateur Gerald S. Spear '48, disorganized expressions of "tan that Tiger" were welded into a harmonized version of "Crimson in Triumph Flashing...
...Tan Malaka was one of the founders of the Indonesian Communist Party, which is currently doing quite well for itself behind the scenes of the Indonesian Republican Government. But Tan Malaka had an ideological falling out with official Communism and became a Trotskyite. Tan Malaka also had a falling out with his great friend President Soekarno, who objected to a plot to kidnap Premier Sjahrir last year. Soekarno jailed Tan Malaka, and Comrade Alimin became Indonesia's No. 1 Communist...
...traveler, recently returned from Indonesia, asked a member of the Republican Government: "When are you going to let Tan Malaka out of jail?" "I don't know," said the official. "You don't know?" asked the traveler. "Well," said the official, "it's hard to say. You see, he was thrown into Cheribon prison a year ago last July and I don't think he's been given anything to eat since then...
...Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...
...National Chairman William Z. Foster and two party henchmen were spotted emerging from a West 56th Street residence. They had been visiting apartment 5-A, Woltman said. They drove off in a black Oldsmobile (New York license 7-Y-804). At 3:55 p.m., Bridges came out, wearing a tan windbreaker, and ducked into a taxi. A World-Telly reporter stopped him long enough to ask Bridges whether he had enjoyed his conference with Communist Foster. Bridges looked surprised, snapped "You're crazy...