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...Billy Arnold, motor race driver: the 500-mi. Memorial Day race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while a thief made off with his private car parked outside the track. Said Speedster Arnold: "I'd like to find whoever took it. I'd give him a title to the darn thing...
...almost complete contrast are California's past president and president-to-be. During austere, bushy-browed President Campbell's seven years in office many of his hours have been whiled away on top of Mt. Hamilton, 30 mi. southeast of Berkeley, where, as director of Lick Observatory, he spends his time staring into the sky watching stellar orbits, comets, nebulae. For the past 30 years his fame as an authority on solar eclipses has caused him to be selected to lead expeditions into India, Russia, Spain, Australia. If you wanted to communicate with President Campbell, a letter to Lick Observatory...
...noticed by British newsmen when she took off alone in her tiny Gipsy-Moth biplane from Croydon, Amy ("Call-me-Johnnie") Johnson landed last week at Port Darwin, Australia, a national heroine. Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last...
...Enterprise, one of the four yachts built to compete for the right to race with Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V: a trial in Long Island Sound with the Resolute, cup defender in 1920, by 10 min., 30 sec. over a 22-mi. course. In a later race, with Harold Vanderbilt sailing her and the Vanitie as an added starter, she won again, this time by eight minutes...
...atmospheric wind tunnel through which 900-mi.-per-hour currents may be produced under all conditions of temperature and humidity...