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Jewish-themed Crossword Puzzle

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Owens the opportunity to win his
fourth gold medal, the speculation has
ever since been that in the aftermath of
Owens’s earlier victories, Avery Brund- Find Your Wilde
age did not want to add to Hitler’s em-
barrassment by having two Jews win
gold medals. Suggestions have been
consistent that the omission of Stoller
and Glickman was deliberately anti-
semitic, and an appeasing of Hitler.
An obvious act of appeasement
was the tortured debate that took
place within the hierarchy of Britain’s
BBC over whether to accredit its fore-
most sporting commentator, the for-
mer Olympic gold medalist from the
1924 Paris Games, Harold Abrahams
(his story at these Games was later
told in the movie Chariots of Fire).
It was felt that the presence in Berlin
of Abrahams, who was Jewish, could
have been embarrassing to the British
government. The BBC’s Controller of
Programs, Cecil Graves, wrote to his
colleagues, “We all regard the German
action against the Jews as quite irratio-
nal and intolerable … but would it be
discourteous to send a Jew commenta-
tor to a country where Jews are taboo?”
After much deliberation, Abrahams
was sent to Berlin, with Graves con-
cluding that the BBC should inform
the Germans of the BBC decision and
“leave them to raise any objections.”
The Berlin Olympics torch relay
from Mount Olympus in Greece was
the first of its kind, and the Games were
the first to have live television cover-
age. Despite these advances, they were
also to be the final Olympic Games for
12 years owing to World War II. Ironi- “Golden Jews” by Yoni Glatt, koshercroswords@gmail.com
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the Center for Holocaust and Geno- 14. “Nae” sayer? 8. Early anesthetic
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event updates and 51. Feldman of “Mad Men” and “Superstore” 47. RICO case maker
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1. No. 2 in the lab See the Crossword Puzzle
2. “Bracketology” org. solution on page 42A
3. Caught between two emotions