Word: bluebird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as bad on Utah's famed Bear River marshes, where "bluebird weather" was keeping the ducks deep in the marshes...
Died. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 63, internationally known speed king; of a cardiac condition and stroke; in Reigate, England. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Sir Malcolm (King George V knighted him in 1931) tried bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...
...mustached old colonel, who had spent 40 seasons in Kashmir, refused to leave. Said he: "Good God, no! I'll just pull my houseboat over another mile or so and forget the trouble." The Hindu pianist who played an Indian version of boogie woogie at the houseboat-cabaret Bluebird had a different solution. He bought a new, heavy, imported Scotch tweed suit with heavy overcoat and tweed cap. Asked if he were not afraid of the approaching Moslem tribesmen, he giggled loudly, exclaimed: "Lord, no! I have become a Christian...
Farther north, the biggest and noisiest hunting show the U.S. had ever known was already well under way. There were few pheasant, practically no ruffed grouse, few duck, but the guns roared anyhow. On Chesapeake Bay, duck hunters cussed the "bluebird"weather -balmy days when the redhead and canvasback like to sit on the water, and the men in the blinds see few duck overhead. In Washington, an unseasonable freeze-up sent birds hightailing south through the state in two days. But there were plenty of white-tailed deer, plenty of ammunition, and plenty of hunters (some ten million...
...Malcolm Campbell, veteran auto-&-boat speedster, had a new ambition at 61. He proposed to raise the water speed record (141.74 m.p.h.) which he set with the Bluebird II in 1939. On an English lake next fall he will use the Bluebird's old hull with a brand-new jet engine...