Word: yeager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Return of the Bad Men (RKO Radio] has enough bad men in the cast to stock a year's output of westerns. It includes such semi-legendary desperadoes as Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin, Wild Bill Yeager, The Arkansas Kid, Cole, Jim & John Younger, Emmett, Bob & Grat Dalton, and the Sundance Kid. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a case of too many crooks: most of these villains, though fairly well cast and reasonably picturesque, merely get in the way of each other's villainy...
...first man to fly faster than sound in the XS-1 was Air Force Captain Charles Yeager. By now, four others have done it: Major G. E. Lundquist and Captain James P. Fitzgerald of the Air Force, and NACA Test Pilots Herbert Hoover† and Howard Lilly, who was recently killed in a crash. These five had the strange experience of outflying the roar of their own rocket motors...
...once played for Dartmouth, Ed Donovan who played with Holy Cross, Cliff Hoffman who was with the basketball team from the University of Michigan, Sallie Nechtem who played with Boston U., Johnnie Pauler from Carrol College, Frank Smith from Penn State, Howie Vocke from St. Johns University, and Dick Yeager from Michigan Normal make up the entire team...