Word: blackboarding
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...Benz racers, which finished one-two in last summer's Le Mans 24-hour race. Headed by Engineer Alfred Neubauer, the Germans arrived weeks early with 24 mechanics and a truckload of spare parts, then drilled like a football team. Daily driving sessions were followed by nightly blackboard drills, and each mile of the course was memorized...
...When the blackboard blurs and the neon lights become globs in the distance, today's student has three alternatives. If he brings his complaints to the Hygiene Building, he is steered toward a list of Boston optholmologists. These men have M.D. degrees, and may be of help of those with eye disease, but most students just need a power increase in their present lenses--so optholmologists are an expensive luxury. He might instead patronize the handful of opticians around the Square. Here, however, the student is helpless before the log-rolling collusion of examiner and lens grinder. This combination rarely...
...Every blackboard in the place had a great "Beat Yale" scrawled across it. Over the doorway a taped message warned that "A Team That Won't Be Beat Can't Be Beat...
...blackboard just inside the door of the Varsity Club someone had left a message for Dick Clasby. It read, "Dick Clasby: Call Jordan Olivar." I puzzled over that for a long moment and then charged it off to an over-anxious secretary who had gotten her Jordans crossed. "Dick," I said as I walked into his room, "'I think Coach Jordan wants you to check in with him." Clasby, seated reading a book, only smiled. "Do you mean that message for me downstairs? Forget it. The guys are kidding me again." Such humor, three days before the Yale game...
Fire Fighters. Among the educational toys are light-up maps and the "Magic Speller" ($3) whose picture cards, when inserted in a slot, rack up simple words like "bird" and "bear" for a child to copy on a miniature blackboard. The Tom Thumb typewriter is a real working model ($19.95). Prospective architects can try their hand with "Blockbusters," big, cor rugated-paper blocks capable of holding more than 200 lbs. (twelve blocks for $5.95). Radio hams can assemble their own crystal sets ($2.50). One of the best bargains for budding mechanics: the plas tic "Fix-It" automobile. Its battery, radi...