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...slogans and emblems of about 18 different political parties. (Example: one party flaunted the rising sun, a second a full sun, a third the setting sun; at least three small parties encroached on the Communists' hammer & sickle.) There were some stunt candidacies (Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Bicyclist Alfredo Binda) and some frivolous parties (The Movement for Divorce, The Party of the Beefsteak), but basically the campaign would be a deadly political fight between the democratic center and the two anti-democratic extremes in Italian politics...
...Clowning Belgian Gerard Debaets & daring little Alfred Letourner: $5,000, first prize in Manhattan's 54th International Six-Day Bicycle Race; with 1,054 points to 392 for Hill & Binda, 227 for Sheehan & Croley. On hand was the biggest crowd in U. S. cycling history, mostly to cheer for red-headed Torchy Peden, just back from Europe, and his French-Canadian partner, Jules Audy. They weakened at the finish. Grinning and reckless, red-shirted Debaets won seven of the last ten sprints to clinch first prize...
...Race. Old Reggie MacNamara, a champion twelve years ago and still strong though no longer fast, was entered; so was big, blond, popular Charles Winter; Gaetano Belloni's wild mane of crinkly hair pushed out above his handlebars. The crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were...
...Smith, P. Keese, Binda, T. H. Clark, R. L. Lyon, Hillman, W. D. Foley...
Before the beginning and between the halves of the University game the second basketball team defeated the second Technology team by a score of 17 to 15. The second team line-up was as follows: Mossman, l.f.; Carlisle, r.f.; Hickey, c.; Broun, l.g.; Binda...