Word: dogfighter
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Three men are in a dogfight for the goalie slot. They are Steve O'Neil, who guarded the cage last winter. Goody Harding, former Freshman puck captain who was ineligible last year, and Gus Summers, who tended the most for last year's successful Freshman six. Any one of the trio may start against Tufts...
...novelty of "firsts" was still fresh. Captain Frank K. Hill Jr. won the first U.S. dogfight victory over Europe by shooting down a Focke-Wulf 190 in the skies over Dieppe. (Modestly he claimed only a "probable" victory, because he did not have time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...
From the north the Jap launched an air armada against Midway. Not a plane was on the ground when he got there. The Marines, in stubby Grumman Wildcats, met him over the shore. With the help of anti-aircraft they knocked down 40 planes in the most concentrated dogfight U.S. airmen had ever seen...
...rolling off an unctuous commercial. Once when reading a plug for Adler Elevator Shoes "Knockabouts come in ten colors . . . beige, cinnamon, blue . . ."), Morgan ad-libbed remarks on the probable habits of a man who would wear blue shoes, remarked "I wouldn't be seen in them at a dogfight." When the sponsor objected that his approach was "negative," Morgan retracted, said he would wear blue shoes to a dogfight...
Russia and Great Britain would love a Balkan dogfight this spring. If Hungary and Rumania fought each other instead of Russia, the second front against Germany would be ready-made by Adolf Hitler...