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...longer you stay up destroying other aircraft in time of battle," mused Colonel Francis S. Gabreski, 48, "the luckier you've got to be." By that measure, the retiring commander of the 52nd Fighter Wing at New York's Suffolk County Air Force Base is the luckiest man in the air. Though it has been 15 years since his last combat mission, the Colonel is still the nation's top-ranked living combat ace, with 371 kills to his credit from World War II and Korea. Gabreski is leaving the Air Force...
...with information-direct from Hitler's headquarters-that was used over loudspeakers to break the German resistance: "Panzer grenadiers of the 24th, we shall not be south of Voronezh the day after tomorrow as your leaders have assured you. Save your bread, your ammunition and your gasoline. The luckiest will be those who have kept a bullet to blow their brains out." After also relaying information about such things as the July 20 plot against Hitler and the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets, Roessler ultimately became the prey of the Gestapo, which stumbled onto...
After a series of ill-starred ventures, the Lincoln Center company has put together a creditable production, and it is luckiest of all in its British star, Anthony Quayle. His Galileo leaps at the tantalizing bait of new knowledge, delivers his lines with a purity that makes diction a diadem, and knows bitterly the heart's blind wounds for which the mind has no tourniquet...
...career continued to blossom. "I thought I was the luckiest girl alive," she says. "I did not know it was bad for a young girl to be singing in a sophisticated revue." But Tony remembers that her diary in those days "was filled with fanciful images of what a beautiful, happy family life she had and what a glamorous existence she led, when in reality it was plenty seedy...
...Akron's Art Arfons, 40, is not the luckiest man alive, he is certainly lucky to be alive. Three times in the last three years, Arfons has driven his jet-powered Green Monster to a new world's land speed record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats - and each time he has narrowly escaped death when a rear tire exploded and the car went out of control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America...