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...records. At 200 mi. only one of the standard cars, high rated for stamina, was among the first ten. In the last half they came up, finished third (Studebaker), fifth (Hupmobile) and sixth (Studebaker). But already down Indianapolis' 2½ mile-long brick oval, in the dust, heat, bedlam and gasoline fumes, a businesslike little car, fat in the middle, had buzzed busily past the finish line in the record time of 4 hr. 48 min. 3.79 sec., driven by Fred Frame, built by Harry Hartz and Harry A. Miller. Driver Frame won $20,000 first prize money, about...
...Bedlam Reigns As Walker Testifies," "Jimmy's Wisecracks Convulse Audience," "Crowds Cheer Walker On Street." With these headlines the newspapers record the popular reaction to the examination of the Mayor of New York on charges of graft and incompetence. Apparently the greater part of the people of New York are so accustomed to the Tammany Tiger that they prefer the smell of the beast to clean air. On the basis of such reports it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the average American has less self-respect, as a citizen, than men who live under other democratic governments. With...
Smart Mr. Gibson made "Nine Points and said he might make more. Smart Signer Grandi made "Seven Points." Like firecrackers on a Chinese New Year's Day good ideas exploded every second, producing the effect of a vast Bedlam of Brilliance among the 2.500 smart people. (Biggest delegation: 100 Japanese...
Major Trends emerging from the Conference Bedlam last week were...
...soon as all the bells get going, led by old No. 15, windows are flung open in Leverett, Winthrop, Adams, and Claverly* Houses, and even in Lowell House itself. Students whistle and shriek, alarm clocks ring; and everybody wails "Rinehart!"--the old Harvard wail. The bedlam lasts for about ten minutes, after which the High Tablers take a stiff drink of ink and go back to work. --New Yorker...