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Speed, a modern goddess, exacts fierce allegiance from those who worship her in motorboats, airplanes, automobiles. Among Speed's most faithful devotees was Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave. Last year in his monster car, the Golden Arrow, at Daytona Beach, Fla. he set a new world automobile record of 231.36 m. p. h. In March he was fined ?5 for driving his private car 45 m. p. h. in Hampstead. People smiled at that story. Segrave, who had said he was through with auto racing, seemed to be keeping his word. But Segrave was continuing...
West Virginia is pocked with Indian mounds which have yielded bushels of arrow heads and other implements. One of the greatest mound discoveries was in Moundsville where, in 1838, was unearthed stone plaque covered with cryptic writing. Hoping to find some trace of the ancestry of prehistoric Americans savants plunged into the task of deciphering the writing...
...water. The action resembling that of a swimmer as he turns on his back to float. The other whale well in the rear and swimming back up, would suddenly put on a burst of speed-full ahead, both engines-- as he ploughed a snowy, straight-as-an-arrow furrow through the Prussian-blue sea, which brought him swiftly forward to form that perfect, blissful contact with his mate...
...those interested presumed its power to be somewhere near that of Packard Co.'s mightiest, a 24-cylinder X-type engine, producing 1,250 h. p. No airplane engine was known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...