As the finals of this year's Elks "Hoop Shoot" National Free Throw Contest fast approach, let's meet a few onetime national finalists who later proved that their successes in the Elks "Hoop Shoot" were anything but flukes.
With its sunny days, spectacular scenery, and sandy beaches--and that's not even to mention the sea--the U.S. Virgin Islands is practically a heaven on earth. Sylvia McNair
Using coded letters and care packages to slip contraband past German guards, MIS-X, an organization so covert that most people never heard of it, helped many U.S. POWs escape from Nazi prison camps during the war against the Axis powers. Bill Vossler
In the days of the Wild West, cow camp cooks were a breed apart. And if you want a taste of the trail yourself, it'snot hard to re-create some of their concoctions. Geri Davis