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...post in both Florida and New York. Artfully steered by Champion Jockey Willie Hartack, Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn worked his way between horses to catch lightly favored Lincoln Road and win Gulfstream's Florida Derby by half a length. At Jamaica, Elkcam Stable's Hubcap just stole the Swift Stakes from Warner Stable's Levelation by a dirty nose...
Beck, explained Loomis to the committee, "was extremely angry because I had stood up to him and treated him like he was just an ordinary mortal. He might be a big wheel, but as far as I was concerned, he was just a hubcap. He said that nobody was going to tell him [what to do]-that his conscience was going to be his guide...
...showing on any screen, what happens to a man who doesn't let his sleeping wife lie. but dares to wake her with the information that there is a unicorn in the garden-"eating roses." The old girl just rolls over, fixes him with an eye like the hubcap of purgatory, and explains: "The unicorn is a mythical beast." The man goes droopingly downstairs and feeds the unicorn a lily. "The unicorn," he hastens to tell his wife, "ate a lily." "You," she concludes, "are a booby, and I am going to have you put in the booby hatch...
Fake Wheels. To cash in on the sports car fad, Los Angeles' Calnevar Co. brought out a "simulated wire wheel," a stainless-steel, spoked disk which can be snapped on in place of the conventional hubcap. Good for any U.S. car (except Studebaker, Lincoln and the Nash Ambassador), Calnevar's sporty gadget covers the entire wheel, looks like the real thing. Calnevar has orders for 50,000, expects to sell 250,000 in 1953. Price: $99.50 to $109.50 for a set of four (real wire wheels cost $300 extra a set). But the company may find the competition...
...cars must be 1949 makes or newer. They must be strictly stock, with no special tires, no extra-heavy springing and no "souping up" of engines. Safety rules are rigidly enforced. Headlights are taped to prevent flying glass, and the drivers must wear crash belts and helmets. Even hubcaps are removed-a flying hubcap can be more deadly than a flying saucer...