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...Manhattan automobile editor was blindfolded last week, taken for four rides. Three times he guessed the number of cylinders in the car. On the fourth ride he mistook a four for an eight. Happy over his error were the officials of the third biggest U. S. motor company...
...London where his pudgy, unimpressive physique was an even less noticeable handicap than it had been in the U. S. Bored with night clubs, he made three talking pictures which attracted scant notice, met and married Barbara Bennett, went to Hollywood where he accomplished nothing except learning to ride a horse...
Certain staff generals have the right, in emergency, to commandeer a ride in any passing car. The other day one of these dignitaries found himself out in the country with a car paralyzed by broken gearing and with an important meeting in town within half an hour. He stopped the first car which came along, headed cityward. It was driven by a lady in helmet and goggles, quite like the dozen or more other Belgrade ladies who drive their own cars, but when the general had stated his request and the lady said "get in" he was horrified to recognize...
...their hats, he doffing in return. Last week the King rode in Rotten Row for the first time since his illness, rode almost unrecognized by smart Rotten Rowers. Only six hats came off to His Majesty, much to his amusement, his relief. In the old days he had to ride down Rotten Row with his hat-arm working like a semaphore...
Coach Cromwell is baldheaded, expansive, slightly fussy. His charges are proud and pleased when he kisses them for winning a race, as last week he kissed Vic Williams. In such gestures as this? and the circumstance that young Runner Wykoff, as a reward for winning races, will ride a float in Los Angeles next week as ruler of a pre-Olympic pageant?are implied the true reason for Californian athletic supremacy?Enthusiasm...