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...sleek and streamlined cars that bore little resemblance to the homely soap-box-on-wheels, 149 helmeted youngsters crouched over their steering wheels and rolled earnestly downhill in the eleventh annual Ail-American Soap Box Derby before 65,000 spectators at Akron. Young Donald Strub, 13, rolled the fastest, won a four-year college scholarship...
...even by the jazzophiles. Jimmy had never tried to remind them. He had hit the big time before he was 15, playing the Orpheum circuit, and even a command performance before Britain's King & Queen. Then he got interested in baseball, spent his days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved his rolling bass, and taught what he knew to two young friends. Soon fans were flocking to hear Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons play. But while...
Captain Huna Rosenfeld, Bill O'Connor, Bill Leming, and Vince Moriarty, ail on the injured list, watched the annual 3.7 mile race from the sidelines. Whether they will be able to start in this Friday's opening meet against Holy Cross and M.I.T. is still uncertain...
June Allyson found she is the new type of pinup. Editors of 250 college papers, who admire her because she "likes a good book, loves children, and is a good conversationalist," voted her 1947's Most Lovable Movie Actress. Lovable Miss Allyson is now reciprocating by picking the Ail-American College...
Sparking the drive is the Government's Ail-Union Committee for Physical Culture. It is headed by Nikolai Romanov (no kin of the late Czar), who bosses 600 stadiums, 14,000 playgrounds, 6,000 skiing stations, 45,000 volleyball courts. Romanov's job is emphatically part of the Soviet preparedness program...