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Every true space cadet knows that the famous, 4,000-ft-wide crater near Winslow, Ariz, was made by a giant meteorite...
...brothers had creditable, if unexciting, war records. At 17, Billy volunteered for the Naval Air Force, spent 2½ years "trying to get into an airplane but washing them instead," came out a naval cadet. Ben, turned down by his draft board because of defective vision, also volunteered, served in Newfoundland with the Air Force and emerged an administrative captain. As a naval lieutenant, ., Henry was stationed at the Ford company, where he taught mathematics to sailors until released from the service to rejoin the company after his father's death...
...Cadet hurler Frank Lecates scattered the other safeties, and his teammates bunched three singles in the third inning for the two Army runs...
...Football Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school. Pop Warner made Jim Thorpe into a football player, and Jim Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs for touchdowns against Army [and a cadet halfback named Ike Eisenhower] in 1912." In the Olympics that year, with hardly any formal training, Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon. When Jim stepped up to receive his trophies from Sweden's King Gustaf V, the King said: "You, sir, are the greatest athlete...
...West Point chemistry class one day in 1854, Cadet James Abbot Whistler was asked to discuss silicon. He began: "Silicon is a gas." "That will do, Mr. Whistler," said the professor-and shortly thereafter Cadet Whistler was handed his discharge papers. In later years, when he had made himself one of the finest painters of his day, he liked to say: "If silicon had been a gas, I would have been a general...