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Humming (enrollment: 979) and progressive, Lawrence is chiefly notable for the Institute of Paper Chemistry, a crack graduate school which President Wriston started in 1929. Under President Wriston's eleven-year administration, Lawrence has pioneered in holding free classes for the unemployed, renting paintings for student rooms, fighting subsidies to football players. An enthusiastic tennist...
...best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack-ups and collisions which the crowd had come to see showed no signs of materializing. Instead, the monotony of a beautifully driven race on a course too difficult for real speed was punctuated only by the iron voice of the world's most powerful address system, telling the crowd, picnicking...
...Nuvolari had given out a statement: "I have great respect for several of them but I expect to win." A driver with such courage that he once won a race with his leg in a plaster cast, such endurance that he drove in another the day after a crack-up which doctors had said would keep him in bed for half a year, Nuvolari wears a little silver turtle on a string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both the hare's boast...
...words Grocer Grimes is "an individualist but not a rugged individualist." An exploratory trip to Europe last year left him cold to authentic Rochdale Co-operative principles. Quick-witted, quick to smile, he is a masterful salesman, a fair golfer, a crack poker player and can multiply six figures by six figures in his head...
...dawn's crack, these gentlemen gathered at Lakehurst before 6 a. m. Loading the wealthiest cargo that ever went aloft, the dirigible circled over Manhattan until a heavy mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their...