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...luxury has a lap, Beverly Hills sits square upon...
...first freeze finds them strapping skates on wobbly ankles and pretending they are Gordie Howe. But of all the sundry forms of midwinter madness, nothing quite matches that of the iceboater. He may spend the summer sprawling in the cockpit of a Star or Lightning, watching the waves lap gently against his hull, sniffing the sea breeze, and reading John O'Hara. But just let the water turn to ice. Out come the brandy, the long Johns, the parka and the racing goggles-and, lordy, watch his smoke...
...yard run over Crusader ace Bob Credle. Credle, voted the outstanding athlete in the New England AAU Championships just a week ago, stayed confidently on Chiappa's heels for the first five trips around the Briggs oval, but when he tired to pass Chiappa on the final lap, the Crimson junior stepped up his pace and won by two yards, in the fine time...
...leering menace strides up to the dead man, jabs a pin into his hand. "Good grief!" gasps the dead man's widow (Audrey Hepburn). "What next?" Another fiend, that's what. A pal of the malevolent mourner corners the widow and flips lighted matches into her lap. "Your late husband," he snarls viciously, "stole a quarter-million dollars from me an' my buddies. Where is it?" To the rescue rushes a handsome stranger (Gary Grant). "What's going on here?" he wants to know...
Even in a Volkswagen, class tells. Gurney was all the way into the first corner before he shut the door of his sedan. Only once each lap-on a particularly tricky corner-did he bother to touch his brakes. The rest of the time, his VW was flat out. "You've got to keep the revs up there and use them," he explained. The pace was enough to discourage all but the stoutest-hearted competitors. "I tried to run his kind of race," said one, "but I didn't have the nerve." At the finish, Gurney...