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...when half a million New Yorkers jammed out to watch the Vanderbilt Cup races on Long Island. In the Vanderbilt were such car names, now dim, as Pope-Toledo, Darracq, Simplex and Locomobile, such still familiar ones as Mercedes and Fiat. The driver lists included such U.S. professionals as Barney Oldfield, Ralph de Palma, such millionaire amateurs as William K. Vanderbilt himself and Spencer Wishart, such Europeans as Jenatzy, first man to exceed 60 m.p.h., Lancia, Nazzaro, Victor Hemery and Louis Chevrolet. But the toplofty language of the racing notices enraged many a Long Island citizen from the first...
There is much, beyond the pulse of the story, to enhance the court-martial setup. The charge against Maryk of seizing com mand during a typhoon on the ground that Queeg was mentally ill - is an un hackneyed one. Again, Maryk's lawyer, Lieut. Barney Greenwald, would far rather be prosecuting than defending his client - and indeed wins him an acquittal by not defending him. Instead, he attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort...
...readers and more ads than it could print, but the Times confidently expects to hold its circulation lead. Striking editorial staffers found temporary jobs, from unloading bananas and canned salmon on the city's docks to doing cleanup jobs for the park department. Said Federal Mediator Barney Toner: "Negotiators from both sides never raised their voices and debated issues as quietly and carefully as two old men playing chess...
...only 45 minutes in the Senate. By last week the same men were apprehensive. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey disapproved of the bill, and into his office trooped a covey of hand-wringing moviemen to urge him to change his mind. While such potent Hollywood brass as Paramount's Barney Balaban, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros Skouras and Columbia's Jack Cohn were in mid-argument, the Secretary's phone rang. Humphrey answered it. Then he told the distinguished lobbyists that the President had just issued a memorandum of disapproval. He was killing the tax-relief bill...
...Mickey was playing shortstop for the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids in the Ban Johnson League. He was big enough to deserve at least a perfunctory glance from the baseball scouts. But nobody seemed interested in glancing Mickey's way. The Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, tried to get the St. Louis Cardinals interested. They did not answer Barnett's letter. As they will long remember, ivory hunters for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox also passed up the chance to give Mickey Charles Mantle a farmclub tryout...