Word: daredevils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since his first film break in Private's Progress, he has played virtually every Anglo-Saxon subspecies from crook to cad, fop to daredevil. He does most of his own stunts, trembling with fear...
Others followed in his wake. One, an Italian daredevil named Signor Ballini, splashed into the rapids and the headlines from a tightrope 160 ft. above the water. And there were barrels. Though countless daredevils pitted their fate against rapids and whirlpool, it was only in 1901 that anyone dared barrel over the waterfall itself. Anna Edson Taylor, a middle-aged widow from Michigan, survived the venture, but three of six others who later tried the stunt died in the attempt...
Died. Joan Merriam Smith, 28, daredevil aviatrix who last March set out to retrace the ill-fated Amelia Earhart's 1937 flight plan in hopes of becoming the first woman to solo around the world, despite frozen landing gear, leaky gas tanks, engine trouble and poor weather, touched back down at Oakland, Calif., 27,750 miles and 57 days later-only to have a rival, Jerry Mock, flying a route 4,000 miles shorter, beat her by 25 days; of injuries sustained when the rented Cessna 181 she was flying with a friend crashed near Big Pine, Calif...
...family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells by stuffing them with dead villagers, and the scorched-earth policy that the Germans learned from...
...safer to stay with something you know something about" was clearly said by the grandson of the man who said, "People can have the Model T in any color, so long as it's black." Only Henry Ford I meant it, while that daredevil Henry Ford II, 44, threw caution aside and took a $1,600 flyer in a Broadway musical, Sugar City, due in March. The auto heir has backed "two or three" other shows, none of which earned him a dime. But, as Granddad used to say, history is more or less bunk...