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...before the 500-mi. Memorial Day automobile derby at Indianapolis Speedway, Driver Les Spangler of Los Angeles went out behind his garage to look at a mother rabbit and six bunnies he was raising. Someone asked him if he was grooming them for their lucky left hind feet. "Naw," he said, "I don't need any charms. I'm just naturally a lucky...
...hoping to increase his lead by not stopping for gas, came to a dead halt when his tank went dry a half-mile from help. Then Louis Meyer of Huntington Park, Calif., winner in 1928, swung into the lead and despite frequent stops for gasoline held it for 185 mi. until the finish. As he spun steadily around the track and no more accidents happened, the crowd wandered about the grounds picking four-leaf clovers, swigging bottled beer, munching hamburger sandwiches. His lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed...
...Overhead ' is a familiar technical term in newspaper work. It describes a report flashed to a newspaper directly by commercial telegraph instead of through the regular channels of a wire service. For instance: on Decoration Day in the town of Walsenburg, Colo., 50 mi. south of Pueblo, Editor John B. Kirkpatrick of the World & Independent wired Associated Press in Denver that he wanted coverage of the Indianapolis automobile races. Presently AP wired its reply: WILL OVERHEAD WINNER OF INDIANAPOLIS RACES. Editor Kirkpatrick jumped with excitement. An hour later the World & Independent's 1,750 readers puzzled over...
...publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad in pink tights, perched on the wing. About that time he won medals for an astonishing overwater flight to Catalina Island 28 mi. offshore. Few years later he took Mary Pickford up for her first flight...
...feels to fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated a stop watch. Still falling, at 144 m.p.h., he took time to dry his goggles. As his body dropped into denser atmosphere, its speed was slowed to about...