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...dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record (as Army lieutenant in the 27th Cavalry) and two years of college (at U.C.L.A.). He had intelligence, patience and willingness. He was aware of the handicaps his race encounters, but he showed it not by truculence or bitterness, and not by servility, but by a reserve that no white man really ever penetrated. Most important...
...umbrellas, began to move toward the markets with food for the hungry capital. Little boys resumed their sale of stuffed, varnished frogs. But Paraguay, too poor to afford a sewage system or central water works for its capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers feared conscription. Cattle had been slaughtered or driven away; production of quebracho extract, an export staple used in tanning, had dropped...
...Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
Then the American friends had to fight it out between themselves. Chapman started out with a dazzling two under par for the first nine, went five holes ahead. Then Willie won five holes in a row to tie it up. At the 27th Willie went one up. On the next five holes Dick Chapman, playing the best golf of his career, racked up four pars and a birdie; Turnesa matched him stroke for stroke. On the 33rd Chapman faltered, missed a six-foot putt, and Turnesa took the hole. On the 34th, with a chance to stay in the running...
...pitcher's box for his Central Valley (N.Y.) high-school team this season, the bases were loaded. He calmly struck out the next three men. Then he pitched two no-hit, no-run games and struck out 34 batters in the process. They were his 26th and 27th victories in a row. So a nice man from the Chicago Cubs breezed into Bob's home town, the sleepy little Hudson River hamlet of Harriman, just ahead of a nice man from the New York Yankees...