Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Suicide. Pennsylvania-born Hap Arnold hadn't planned to go to West Point in the first place. His older brother had the appointment and ditched it, but small-town Dr. Arnold was determined that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both...
...band (This Is Jazz: II, 2 12-inch records) was composed of older players, men who for the most part had given up music until 1943, when Ory put them together for a West Coast tour. These four sides, cut in 1947, are fine examples of a Dixieland that even the purists will like; yet neither old age-Edward Ory was born in 1889-nor an old style can make these records dated...
...Germany's East-West split has prevented such an "all-German" body; last January the three western zonal boards formed the German Student Association, with headquarters now in Cologne...
...booklet was prepared by Robert L. West, vice president for International Affairs...
...stories contained in this issue, "Buddha and the Fat Boy," by Aristides Stravrolakes, rates top billing. Entertaining and readable, it makes a small boy alive as he loses his cap and encounters a bronze idol. It captures the flavor of the West Side with earthy but unforced dialogue. Best of all, it tells a story which could easily happen, and with a touch of surprise which separates it from point-to-point narrative. The article is neatly packaged and easily unwrapped...