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...amazement of 15,000 track fans at Madison Square Garden, the Reverend Gil Dodds* bolted straightaway into the lead. Their Iron Deacon, the greatest miler the U.S. ever produced, usually waits a lap or two before showing his heels. As he sped around the board track, his arms flailing like windmills, Dodds heard a heavy-set man in a tuxedo chanting out the time to him: "Twenty-point-five . . . twenty-two," and he knew he was running well...
...only big accident on the police blotter this morning involved four cars which slid into each other at the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Streets. The joint threw one girl into the windshield of the car she occupied, and police who sped to the scene removed her to the hospital. Her injuries were not serious, doctors said...
...best man, the Marquess of Milford Haven, set out in a limousine for the Abbey, after Philip, glancing at his watch again, said: "Bad show, we're a little late." "Cutting it a bit fine, isn't he?" murmured a lady at the palace as Philip sped...
...jailed for nine of them, had joined to get control of rich São Paulo State. To get some democratic backing against this alliance, Dutra had only one course, and he took it. He called on the opposition U.D.N. (National Democratic Union) Party for support. To steaming Bahia sped an Air Force plane to pick up State Governor Octávio Mangabeira, the U.D.N. leader...
Between-halves festivities found bands from both organizations parading, as "Big E" and "Big K" formation sped up, down, and off the field. Eliot's spirited cheerleaders, headed by "Fob" Cobb, ripped off sizable gains through ill-organized Deacon defenses, but the big surprise of the day was attributed to William J. Bingham '16, who craftily provided collapsible goalposts to foil the jubilant throng of rooters which stormed out of the north stands after the contest...