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...Princeton's Arthur Poe and Yale's "Pudge" Heffelfinger turned out in Pittsburgh around the turn of the century. In 1902 a young man named Connie Mack claimed the "Championship of the U.S." for his Philadelphia Athletics after risking the good left arm of his prize pitcher, Rube Waddell, in the Athletics' football lineup. And in the title game that year, Pittsburgh fielded another big-league pitcher: a fireball artist named Christy Mathewson...
Todd Lincoln. Following six previous biographical novels, e.g., Lust for Life (Painter Van Gogh). The President's Lady (Andrew Jackson's wife, Rachel), his latest has the birthmarks of another big bestseller. As Stone's Lincoln steps onstage, he is a feckless, unkempt rube who wolfs his food and says, "Ain't that a caution!" Mary Todd, on the other hand, is "quality folks," with a vocabulary of Basic French (au revoir, soupcon, carte blanche). In Stone's version, it is not Lincoln who lifts himself to eminence by his bootstraps, but Mary who raises...
...Montgomery, Ala., asked in court why he had slugged a woman during a tavern brawl. Rube Wainwright explained: "I thought she was my wife...
Time after time, the flyers circle the field on instruments and slant into cautious approaches to the landing runway. An auto-pilot steers them along the ILS (Instrument Landing System) beam. But while they are making their automatic approach, Rube and his copilot keep up a constant chatter on the radio. They sing out when they first spot the ground, report familiar landmarks, announce the first gleam of runway lights. And every word is recorded on the ground...
...approach to a socked-in airfield. Today's blind-flying planes have intricate instruments to help them navigate (TIME, June 15). But only the most accurate observations can tell pilots when it is safe to grope through mist toward the ground. In their dangerous flights over Long Island, Rube Snodgrass and his crew, measuring those last few feet of weather, are setting new standards for tricky, foul-weather landings...