Yeager

Yeager remembers the players all chanting, “Jay, Jay, Jay,” until Marsh reluctantly joined them on the podium.

It wasn’t until 1979, when Tom Wolfe’s book The Right Stuff was released, and 1983 when the movie followed, that the world became reacquainted with Yeager.

None of that, Yeager believed, was the result of any kind of natural “stuff”—right or not.

As on that day, Yeager is accompanied by Bob Hoover, flying high chase in an F-16 rather than in the FP-80 he piloted on the historic mission 50 years earlier.

Shepherded upwards in that bomber, Yeager’s craft had saved the precious rocket fuel it needed to reach 700 mph.

Though she had kept a low profile over the last few decades, Yeager recently had been thrown back into the spotlight.

Yeager, herself a statuesque blond model and 30-time beauty pageant winner, was just as comfortable in front of the camera.

A pioneering photographer in the 1950s, Bunny Yeager discovered the iconic Bettie Page and helped establish pin-ups.

For three days in a row, Yeager returned until she spotted Winters again and persuaded her to pose for a photo shoot.

Bunny Yeager had her hand in all that was titillating in the 1950s: nude photo shoots, bikini swimsuits, and Playboy centerfolds.

White and Thompson will be the halves, the latter coming in from full-back, where Yeager's punting makes it necessary to keep him.

While Yeager was joyously fabricating this yarn Blythe had been writing on the back of an envelope.

Now I took him away to get some necessary wearing apparel, leaving Blythe to make a proposition to Yeager.

Yeager and I were standing near the cook's scuppers fishing for shark with fat pork for bait.

Yeager was sitting with the ladies under the awning telling them some story of his beloved Arizona.