Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian rules were no handicap to the U.S. team, from the moment the Canadian Army's Mustangs fumbled the opening kickoff. For the U.S. Infantry Blues, Quarterback Tommy Thompson of Fort Worth, Tex., formerly of the professional Philadelphia Eagles, threw two touchdown passes to Halfback Corporal Johnny Bayne, from Ridge Farm, Ill. Corporal Bayne ran the ball to another score, and the Blues just missed two more close chances. Final score: Blues -18; Mustangs...
...over the target his luck ran out: a burst of flak enveloped his Fort, sent it diving out of formation...
Sued for Divorce. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, 33, husky, hard-eyed second son of President Roosevelt, now with the Army Air Forces in the European Theater; Fort Worth's black-haired, vivacious Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt, 35, in Texas. The Colonel met the then Miss Googins at a livestock show in Fort Worth, married her in 1933, five days after he was divorced by his first wife, Elizabeth, mother of William Donner Roosevelt, 12. Elliott was later dropped from the Social Register. Mrs. Ruth Googins Roosevelt charged "unkind, harsh and tyrannical conduct," asked for the custody of their three children...
Boisterous, boyish (25) Bud Mahurin was a mediocre student at Fort Wayne (Ind.) High School because he spent too much time tinkering with motors. He learned to fly during two years of engineering study at Purdue. Holder of the D.S.C. and D.F.C., Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, he did not achieve top-scoring distinction easily. He flew his Republic Thunderbolt on 28 missions over Nazi territory before making his first kill...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...