Word: aceing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was a daredevil racing driver and America's World War I ace of aces, later applied his bravura to business when he took over Eastern Air Lines. He survived a dizzying number of auto and plane crashes, one of which led to his spectacular 24-day nightmare in a rubber raft in the Pacific in 1942. Unfortunately, Pilot Rickenbacker's prose does not fly; it won't even roll. The irascible old individualist makes his life sound dully plausible...
Dartmouth not only stopped Penn's pitching ace. Bill Creeden, cold, but it rolled up 23 points without quarterback Gene Ryzewicz. The Indian star rested an injured knee as sophomore Bill Koenig hit 11 of 22 passes, including five to his buddy, Bob Mlakar. The Indians added 206 yards on the ground to the 213 gained passing--and this was despite a steady drizzle through the second half...
...three-mile mark. Baker was leading with Hardin and the generally underrated McLoone second and third. Brown ace John Cobourn held fourth, but Harvard's Roy Shaw and Bob Stempson the last two scorers needed to spike the win-were close behind...
...moving, dropping bombs and climbing." When it is all over and the pilot heads back to Thailand, the reaction is almost always the same: a dry, cotton mouth. "After that, the rest is a piece of cake," says Colonel Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr., 36, the three-war Negro fighter ace who was affectionately nicknamed "Black Panther" in Korea. "You fly back to your base, and go through all the work still to be done-the reporting, debriefing, ironing out the mistakes you made. We try to profit by each other's mistakes. It's a sort of aerial...
...fastball into the rightfield bleachers, then blasted another even deeper into the stands with two on in the seventh, and followed that with a line drive sin gle in the eighth. Total RBIs: four. One would have been enough. On the mound now was Boston's other ace, Jim Lonborg, fully rested and feeling mean. Always the possessor of a smoking fastball, Lonborg had only a so-so record until the spring when Pitching Coach Sal Maglie convinced him to be less of a gentleman out there: a little brush back once in a while keeps the batters nervous...