Word: aceing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loyalty to the author, true-blue Rings fanciers ignore the edition published by Ace Books, Inc., which was not authorized by Tolkien, and favor instead the version brought out by Ballantine Books and personally approved...
Died. Chuck Thompson, 54, ace speedboat racer who, in 30 years of piloting everything from outboards to 200-m.p.h., unlimited-class hydroplanes, had copped just about every prize in the sport except the biggest-the Detroit Gold Cup; of a crushed chest following the disintegration of his hydroplane while jockeying for position at 160 m.p.h. in the 58th Gold Cup race on the Detroit River, thus becoming the fourth hydroplaner to die in competition in two weeks...
...INCOMPARABLE GERTRUDE LAWRENCE (Ace of Clubs). Original recordings from the '30s by the unforgettable Gertie. British Decca has other memorable reissues on its Ace of Clubs label, including one of Jack Buchanan and Jessie Matthews...
Diffuse and emotionally flat despite its expert airborne excitement, The Blue Max sets out to be a caustic essay on honor, ends up posing questions no more timeless and universal than Who will get Ursula? and Who will be the next ace to fell 20 British planes? The only way to help such synthetic melodrama to a climax is to reveal, once more, the unstartling news that the Kaiser's forces are about to lose World...
...continually reflects his affection for widely assorted types. There was the winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...