Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watt, developer of radar. "Forget the impossible," Watt said. "Few things are impossible." They include a vivid picture of Woodrow Wilson shortly before his death, when young Henry and his father visited the stricken ex-President. "He was not feeble. Often his right arm struck the air in a weird and menacing gesture, then struck again and again as though he would be done with his enemies forever. . . . I want some scalps,' he said to Father time after time, 'and when I am well I am going to get them...
...topflight hockey team which turned in the best Crimson season in many winters. The skaters even succeeded in tying highly-rated Dartmouth, after that college had won 32 straight games. Yale was beaten two out of three, so the old grads were very happy. Basketball season was a little weird, with a mediocre quintet doing all sorts of amazing things, such as beating Penn and Princeton, and losing to Yale. The boys proved very good guests wherever they went, simply refusing to win on an opponent's court. They split two games with Yale, so the old grads were pretty...
WINTER'S TALES-Isak Dinesen-Random House ($2.50). Eleven simple stories about weird people (Sample: "Of a girl, perverse and perhaps a little mad, who ran after the gypsies and found relief in witnessing a decapitation"), with settings in Scandinavia, Persia, Belgium, Paris, etc. Admirers of Author Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales (TIME, April 9, 1934) will snatch at this; others may find her highly feminine, stylized prose a little overrich. One of the Book-of-the-Month Club's dual selections for June...
Coleman stutters, "I'm really all right; it's just my speech," and Greer Garson falls in love. From there on M.G.M. takes the most improbable of plots and turns out a reasonably interesting production. Coleman is at his best in weird plots and Garson is better cast than she has been at times in the past...
...soldiers and sailors died in the North Atlantic when two merchantmen went down. Said Ship's Cook George Dunningham: "There were a lot of men yelling and blowing whistles. Many of them were in the water, and each had his red rescue light lit. It looked like a weird, strange dream...