Word: daredevil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Trapnell, who passes on all Navy planes, is not much like a moviegoers' idea of a test pilot. He is no daredevil, nor is he "in love with the sky." Like most real-life test pilots, he is middle-aged (46) and matter-of-fact about his profession. He finds all airplanes uncomfortable, and suspects that people were happier riding horses...
Divorced. George O'Brien, 48. daredevil Western cinemactor and hero of Zane Grey roles; by Marguerite Churchill O'Brien, 37, auburn-haired stage & screen actress; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...
...either academic pressure or inability to cope with the youthful charges, Brooks must constantly look out for new faces. Usually he can tell at a glance how an individual will fare. The rule's exception came when an inarticulate Danish exchange student applied. Brooks hesitated. Later a Continental fencing daredevil was holding a popeyed crowd spellbound...
Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time-according to the history books. Schoolboys are told that the battle to the last man at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 was one of the most heroic chapters in U.S. history...