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...outstanding compliment of my coaching career came out in New York news print the morning after my underdog squad trounced Princeton 34 to 6 in '37, when one sports writer commented on the way 'the Harvard backs sped to victory behind blocking that was absolutely savage...
...Potter sped over the 10 1/2 mile course in 28:30, for an average of over 21 miles per hour. With this victory he achieved the distinction of being the first man to win two races run by the Club, and in addition he lowered his last year's record by eight minutes...
...first night the President's train sped north, then west. Morning brought Detroit. At the Chrysler Tank Arsenal, 300 soldiers swiftly took their posts. FBI agents blocked the doors, the overhead cranes jolted to a sudden stop. Out of the Presidential train rolled the White House phaeton, its top down, the bulletproof windows up. Franklin Roosevelt stepped in. Chrysler's wise, bulky President K. T. Keller eased into one of the jump seats...
...Wilderness! In Enterprise, Ore., three of a crew of four farmhands left a harvesting machine to look for apples, met a bear in the orchard, sped back to find the fourth man beating off a rattlesnake...
Close over the ground he sped at 350 miles an hour, pulling away from all but one Zero. Then, Cocky said, he began thinking to himself: "Here I'm the guy who's been doing all the talking and I'm running away." He made a turn and found himself coming head-on toward the Zero. The Jap made a quick half-roll, momentarily flying upside down and attempting to get on top. Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other...