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Black-haired, brown-eyed Sid Luckman played his first football in the blare of automobile horns on the hard pavement of Lott Street, Brooklyn. After graduating from Columbia, he signed up with the Bears four years ago. But this week, at 26, he announced that his career was close to its end: he has signed on as an ensign in the U.S. Maritime Service, expects his call any minute...
...market, but it was still a flop. By the early '30s Johnny Black had given up music to run a roadhouse near Hamilton, Ohio. Outside this resort in 1936, in a brawl with a customer over 25?, Johnny Black was knocked down. His head hit the pavement, and his assailant drove off. Three days later Johnny Black was dead...
...made the safari to the ball park by means of pavement pounding from the Air Corps, the Engineers and diverse other sources. They made the march from Harvard to the ball park in about a half hour and very few complaints of sore dogs were heard at the game, where more vocalizing of a more raucous and strident nature than that of the march was heard. It may be taken for granted that one or two of the more spirited fans will be heard to whisper for some days to come
...midnight. Fred heard the drone of a plane, a whistle, a crash, an explosion. He pulled on his britches and ran for the street. Said he: "My first thought was an enemy plane. Then I thought, why in heck. . . ? After I saw how deep the bombs bored into the pavement, I was glad I hadn't hid under that big paper cutter at the office...
...Department's colossal headquarters building across the Potomac from Washington was no longer the $85,000,000 butt of jokes by capital wags. The Pentagon building was a focus of statistical bewilderment: population capacity 40,000; a telephone switchboard big enough for a city of 125,000; enough pavement for a 24-ft. roadway 49 miles long, including parking space for 8,000 cars...