Word: daredevils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Thomas J. H. ("Trap") Trapnell, who braved heavy fire to destroy a bridge in the path of an enemy advance, and Captain Jesus A. Villamor, Philippine Air Corps daredevil ace, were awarded D.S.C.s...
...five years American Export Airlines was the only U.S. airline without a transport plane. Now it has the planes, but no Government mail contract. So last week it was steeling itself for a daredevil stunt: transatlantic service without a subsidy...
...Daredevil Margaret Cotter, Washington socialite who yips like a cowboy when she takes the fences, will ride her high-jumper Rocksie, a bay gelding with whom she has outjumped the top civilian riders of the U.S. (amateur and pro) in horse-show competition. Last summer she and Rocksie skimmed the bars...
What was going on at Ebbets Field last week was of interest not only to Ethel Barrymore, young Vanderbilt and the 31,000 other Ethels and Als who were lucky enough to get in. Brooklyn's fabulous Dodgers were playing a four-game series with the daredevil young Cardinals of St. Louis-a head-on clash in one of the most exciting pennant races in major-league baseball...
Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the fiery Georgia Peach whom the Detroit Tigers bought for $750 in 1905, was a daredevil base-runner, a shoestring-catching outfielder, a dazzling hitter. He could go from first to third on an infield out. On one afternoon, in six times at bat, he hit two singles, a double and three home runs. When he finally hung up his spikes, he had a lifetime batting average of .367, had broken innumerable different baseball records...