Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Race Horses & Chicks. In three months, Skyways' seven ace-manned Conestogas (on which California's Bank of America now holds a $58,000 mortgage) have hopped all over the U.S. barnstorming for cargo to fly. President Prescott has fixed his own fat prices ($1,600 for a full-plane, coast-to-coast trip), charged shippers double the one-way price when planes have had to deadhead to Skyways' base in Los Angeles...
...blooming Boston Yanks, who merged this year with the defunct Brooklyn Tigers. They have Brooklyn's bruiser backs Pug Manders and Ace Parker to help George Cafego, and their Q-T formation has already rolled over the Washington Redskins...
...raising a hand and commanding, "Come out, sun," when a cloud put the City Hall square in shade. The cloud passed. The sun came out, and the crowd almost killed itself laughing. Crowds along the streets politely applauded the Admiral. But they squealed at the sight of Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, giggled and waved as a 17-year-old marine winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor bawled from a jeep: "Come and kiss me, girls...
Bigger, better and costlier memoirs were on the way. With General Wainwright at Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., last week was Hearst's ace story fixer, Bob Considine, who put together Captain Ted Lawson's Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. Beginning Oct. 7, the Wainwright story will be syndicated in 42 installments (to some 250 newspapers) by King Features, which is paying the General a reported $155,000-the equivalent (before taxes) of 19 years' base...
Back from the wars to help Ohio State defend its Big Ten title came Paul Sar-ringhaus, the 200-lb. passing and plunging ace of '42. With All-America Guard Bill Hackett recovered from a summer auto accident, Ohio State was the Big Ten team to beat...