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Otto Graham's Redskins avenged all the wrongs done to Washington teams back to the Midway Monster Massacre by bullying the defenseless New York Giants yesterday, 72-41. The 113-point total easily surpassed the NFL record...
...Akron's Art Arfons, 40, is not the luckiest man alive, he is certainly lucky to be alive. Three times in the last three years, Arfons has driven his jet-powered Green Monster to a new world's land speed record on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats - and each time he has narrowly escaped death when a rear tire exploded and the car went out of control. Last week Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America...
...right the second time. "I'm going to stand on it today," Arfons an nounced, as he climbed into 'the tiny cockpit last week. Its J-79 engine shrieking, Monster lurched off down the straightaway toward the measured mile...
...about 560 m.p.h., Monster suddenly lurched to the right and went air borne, cartwheeling end over end, leaving twisted bits of metal strewn over a mile of salt. Helicopter Pilot Robert Hosking was the first on the scene. "I didn't think anybody could possibly be alive," Hosking said later. "But then I saw an arm move." Securely strapped into his fleece-lined welded-steel cockpit, which escaped serious damage (although the canopy was ripped off), Arfons was not only alive-except for some cuts and bruises, he was absolutely unhurt. Monster was a total write-off. Arfons...
...totem pole of literary fashion. In an age of publicity, puff and promotion, John Dos Passos never developed an exploitable personality. He never became a Great White Hunter, or a symbol of doomed gilded youth, or a pornographer, or a public crackpot or private monster, or even a member of the pansy international, any of which roles might have given him an identifiable and saleable personality. He never even wrote the kind of novels in which some character would turn up again and aeain and enable the reader to say, "There he goes," as in the case of a Lieut...