Word: toughness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assignment he had picked graduates of tough schools. Husky Bill Mooney, 30, an ex-tail gunner who was shot down over Germany, had been trained on the police beat of Chicago's rough & ready City News Bureau (TIME, June 6). So had Fred Bird, 28, a Pacific combat pilot. They left the city room and were swallowed up by Skid...
Nights Off. Tough as they were, Mooney and Bird soon found that Skid Row was tougher. One time Mooney got violently ill having a sociable drink of beer and wine, and had to quit for the day. After one night in a bug-infested hotel, the two reporters gave up, slipped home of nights to their own beds...
Brahms: Tragic Overture (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides). The competition is tough (Beecham, Toscanini), but this performance stands with the best of them. Recording: good...
Died. Thomas Henry Wintringham, 51, tough, battle-scarred veteran of the Spanish Civil War International Brigade (he commanded the British battalion) and military author (Armies of Freemen, 1940; People's War, 1942); of a heart ailment; in Barnetly, England. A natural soldier, Guerrillista Wintringham (who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1936 for disobedience) compressed his fighting experience into a slim 25? handbook, New Ways of War ("a homeowner's guide to killing people without getting killed...
...Quirino was not dismayed; "I may be going back emptyhanded, but I'm not going back empty-hearted." Besides, all the headlines back home on his U.S. welcome might help him through his tough fight for re-election next November...