Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showing their passports, everybody knew "nobody but Americans would do a damn fool thing like this." They sat out a typhoon in Hong Kong, a binge and hangover at Amoy. Flying in loose formation, they worked out a bit of dialogue to pass the time on their long hops. Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke, but we're having a lotta fun." On their most hazardous leg, 1,600 miles over open water between Japan and Shemya (near Attu), they got an escort of Army...
...months behind schedule, Pilots Truman and Evans landed at Van Nuys Airport outside Los Angeles. Their trip had covered 22,275 miles, cost $2,000 including gasoline and oil (which they bought on Esso credit cards). They were given a heroes' welcome. George got a haircut, Cliff a kiss from Miss Van Nuys of 1947 (see cut). Back in Washington, their wives, who had expected them in September, were a bit frosty. Wired Mrs. Truman to Mr. Truman: "You're the luckiest guy in the world to have a wife like...
...Bill Henry, Steve Davis, Bill Brady, Chip Gannon, and the still ineligible Walt McCurdy, Barclay has five experienced guards, but of the coach's 12-man squad, only Cliff Crosby has always been a forward. Captain George Hauptfuhrer was shifted from center to the other forward slot when Barclay acquired two other capable pivot men in Bill Prior and John-Rockwell...
Berg, who sent two possible starters, John R. Rockwell and Cliff Crosby, to this year's Varsity from his last year's squad, likes the way his long-armed dead-eyes have developed in four weeks of practice...
Their narrow escapes were uncanny. Lewis tumbled from a 300-ft. cliff and caught himself 20 feet from the top. A private was thrown from his horse almost atop a grizzly, hit it over the head with his rifle butt and escaped. Their escapes were even narrower than they knew. They built their blockhouse at Fort Mandan, some 1,100 miles up the Missouri, just before the Sioux held a war council. After they crossed the Rockies and were resting, exhausted, before descending the Pacific slope, the Nez Perce Indians decided to wipe them out. The Nez Perces were dissuaded...