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...home was broken, not just somewhat. Anne Frances Robbins, soon nicknamed Nancy, was born in 1921 in Manhattan. Her parents, Car Salesman Kenneth Robbins and Actress Edith ("Lucky") Luckett, split up the same year. Edith felt she had to go on the road to earn a living, so the toddler was deposited just outside Washington, in Bethesda, Md., to live with her Aunt Virginia's family. In 1929, Edith was married for the second time, to a Chicagoan named Loyal Davis, and reclaimed her seven-year-old child...
Chase the Game focuses on three high-spirited adolescents from the decaying slums of Bridgeport, Conn. Walter Luckett, who made the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED while just out of high school, is a gifted black who feels more at ease with whites and plays a cool, deliberate white man's game. Cousins Frank Oleynick and Barry McLeod are whites who feel most comfortable with blacks. All three are players of great promise. None keeps the promise...
...first to fail is Luckett. At Ohio University he finds himself unable to live up to the oversized Bridgeport reputation. "He was the fast gun in town," writes Jordan, "grown tired of proving himself, trying to sustain his image by bluster instead of performance." Drafted by the Detroit Pistons after a round of mishandled negotiations, the disillusioned Luckett boots his chance and gets cut from the team. Oleynick stars at Seattle University, then slides into angry oblivion after a season with the SuperSonics. McLeod, the only one of the three to finish college, is robbed of his chance at glory...
...another pilot tried to reach the upper camp. Link Luckett, 32, made a test run in a helicopter with a maximum altitude of 15,000 ft. Returning to the 10,200-ft. camp, he stripped his plane of a door, a 28-lb. battery, a 12-lb. radio and some cushions, so that his lightened plane could accommodate a passenger. He popped an oxygen tube into his mouth and took off. Ten minutes later he landed on the upper slope at 17,200 ft., scooped up a seriously injured John Day, 51, ferried him down...
Walled In. Early the next morning, Link Luckett returned to pick up another injured climber, but this time he became confused by darting light and shadow, landed on a steep slope. He took off again, landed on a cornice 200 ft. from the camp, but the snow was too soft. Luckett raised off again, plucked Climber Peter Schoening off the snow, deposited him into Don Sheldon's waiting plane below. In all, Luckett made five landings on the upper slope. "You just don't make trips like that for money," he said later. "It was hairy." By week...