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Lookouts were posted along both sides of the straightaway, flashlights ready to blink at the first sign of police. The first few cars took off with a roar, sped down the highway at 60, 70, 100 miles an hour. They ripped along two abreast, made oncoming motorists scurry to the side of the road. The boulevard's residents took one resigned look and telephoned the police...
...music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain's fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...
Love & the Coal Trust. The Dollar Princess was Miss Alice Cowder, dashing daughter of John W. Cowder, president of the Coal Trust. Alice was a strong-minded girl, always abreast of stockmarket quotations. Of her it was said that "in any sort of weather, she works on all the while, until she's raked together, a tidy little pile."*Because her father liked to employ titled Europeans as footmen and office boys, Alice had acquired a rather low opinion of continental coronets ("You bid the right amount-you own a duke or count...
...night, Hadden went home with a cold, and it turned into a streptococcus infection that put him in the hospital. As he wasted away, Luce called on him every night to keep him abreast of TIME'S doings. Hadden, kept up by blood transfusions, still remembering the early days of the magazine, sometimes found it hard to realize TIME'S success. One evening, as Luce outlined the magazine's first big advertising campaign-to cost $20,000-Hadden asked in alarm: "My God, Harry, have we got that much money...
...stay abreast of the times,, the Colorado state legislature defined grand larceny as the theft of anything worth $50 or more. The old limit...