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Nazi propaganda overseas is organized with characteristic German precision. In the chosen spot, first a paper or magazine is printed in German to pump local Germans full of Nazi propaganda. Next, schools are started where small tots ab sorb a Nazified version of the three Rs. It is a systematic penetration of the Hitler ideology, generaled from Berlin, executed by experts...
...dawn one morning last week, bronzed, begoggled Ab Jenkins, 50-year-old mayor of Salt Lake City, strapped a crash helmet under his grease-smeared jowls, stepped into his airplane-motored speed car, set out on his favorite tour: around a 12½-mile circle on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats...
Cracking records is nothing new to Ab Jenkins. Son of a Welsh master mechanic who went to the U. S. to supervise the construction of a Kansas steel mill (and settled in Utah because his wife had joined the Mormon Church), young Ab-christened David Abbott-was a bike racer in the early days of the Century, later raced motorcycles on half-mile dirt tracks. In 1921, when he was a successful building contractor, he won his first auto race-on a $250 bet that he could drive his Nash from Blackfoot, Idaho to Salt Lake City and back...
From then on, Ab Jenkins' hobby became his profession. Backed by manufacturers of tires, oil, gasoline, he began to build racing cars, drive them in endurance runs. In 1932 he "discovered" Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. On its marble-hard salt, 4,300 ft. above sea level, he set his first endurance record with a 24-hour grind at an average speed of 112 m.p.h. When he upped his speed in 1933 and 1934, British auto racers sat up and took notice. To Bonneville with their 6-ton monsters went Racers George Eyston and John Cobb...
...Team Batting College Games ab r h avg. Cornell 11 381 84 109 .286 Harvard 9 302 43 79 .262 Princeton 11 350 52 91 .260 Dartmouth 8 220 31 54 .245 Yale 8 247 35 59 .239 Penn. 12 363 43 78 .215 Columbia...