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...flight from Lima to Panama, a five-year-old stallion named Canastos got frightened and kicked out the side of his stall. The Andes Airlines pilot knew what he had to do. Reluctantly, he fired two slugs from his revolver into Canastos' forehead. Then he brought his plane down on an emergency field...
Sputter & Stall. It took a while for the crowd of 101,000 in Philadelphia Municipal Stadium (and for millions of TV and radio fans) to realize that a fired-up Navy team was playing with the fantastic conviction that it could actually beat Army. But the crowd began to get Navy's idea early in the second quarter. After recovering an Army fumble, the Middies ground out 33 yards in four plays, with Zastrow barging the last seven through a barndoor hole in the Army line for a touchdown...
Army roared back upfield with the following kickoff, only to sputter and stall again as Navy stopped the Cadet runners dead in their tracks. In the closing minutes of the half, Navy went 63 yards for touchdown No. 2, with Zastrow heaving a looping 30-yard pass to End Jim Baldinger, who clawed it away from an Army man in the end zone...
...high into the air, continually forced the Crimson to play Yale's game. When Harvard was able to move the ball on the carpet, its attack looked good. Midway through the third period the home team's superior ball handling seemed ready to pay off, but it couldn't stall Yale's sustained drives...
...doesn't try to knock the spirit out of a horse; any horse he rides can be raced again in a couple of days-and that's unusual. Willie's a great judge of pace. He doesn't whip the horse right out of the stall like Longden, but gets the feel of the horse in the first few strides, then knows instinctively how to race that horse to win. He's the kind of jock who 'rates' horses ... He has good hands, and horses instinctively like him-because he's kind...