HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHUCK YEAGER!

The original “right stuff,” fighter ace and test pilot Chuck Yeager would have turned 100 on Feb. 13 (the Presidential Medal of Freedom winner died in 2020). “Yeager was the Ace of Aces. He challenged the demons that lived in the air and was the first to poke a hole in the sky,” said Philip Kaufman, the director of The Right Stuff (1983). Yeager was also a great one for wit and wisdom, and his surviving wife, Victoria, has collected some of his favorite sayings and advice in an enjoyable new book, 101 Chuck Yeager-isms. amazon.com, $25