Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machines were no more fantastic than the men who uneasily controlled them. The Air Force's "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), first man to hurtle through the sound barrier (in Bell's X-I), makes an entrance in Bridgeman's book that is worthy of jet-age grand opera-and typical of Yeager. As Bridgeman started his first rocket flight in the Skyrocket, bright sunlight made it difficult to read the dials in the cockpit. Suddenly a shadow hovered over his face, and a relaxed voice came over the radio: "Is that better, son?" Yeager, flying...
...Exeter, the freshmen dropped their third game in four starts is the perennially powerful school by a 14-6 score. Attackman Mike Shaw led the Yardling offense with three goals. Mike Smith scored two goals and Chuck Mallones scored one to complete the Crimson total. The freshmen will seek their second victory against Williams on Saturday...
Grays dominated the 100-yard freestyle with Jim Boudreau winning the event in 1.03.3 and Chuck Currier finishing second. In the 200-yard freestyle, Andy Pearson for Thayer Middle was first while the leading qualifier, Anderson, who was obviously tried from the 100 event, dropped to third...
...fancy chuck wagon parked near Palm Springs, Calif., rugged Cinemactor Clark (Mogambo) Gable and his old-time playmate, sometime Actress Kay Williams Spreckels, fifth ex-wife of Sugar (Honey Dew) Daddy Adolph Spreckels II, lined up for morning chow. With other early risers of the Desert Riders, oldest galloping group in those parts, they had just taken a constitutional in the saddle as dawn peeped over the oasis...
Sheehy, in scoring 28 points, broke his school's all-time varsity scoring mark by 16. Five-foot-six guard Chuck Rolles was only slightly less effective in scoring 20. Meade...