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...including children. This figure is about 101% of Toledo's population. According to Art Annual the next best showing of any art museum in the country was made by the Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, Neb., with 49%. Director Godwin and his wife, Molly Ohl Godwin, have built up this following by offering free courses in drawing, painting and music to all the schoolchildren of Toledo, by bringing the best symphony orchestras for free concerts in the Museum's peristyle, thus spending Founder Libbey's money as much for the benefit of Toledo's citizens...
...biggest and the smallest bells are the trickiest to cast and tune. Ranked according to the size of their big bass bells, the world's best carillons, all made in England, are all in North America, the largest being the 72-bell carillon of Manhattan's Rockefeller-built Riverside Church, whose 20-ton bass bell is the largest tuned bell extant.* Others: the 72 bells of the University of Chicago Chapel; the Baird Carillon at the University of Michigan; the Bok Carillon in Mountain Lake, Fla.; the 53 bells of the Peace Tower of Canada's Parliament...
...will not admit that Donald is his first name. An oldtime dirt-track manager, he appeared in Detroit five years ago with no worldly goods save a Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds of 10,000 the past summer. His customary 83-cent top he boosted to $3.30 for last week's derby. Like his colleagues. Promoter Zeiter makes every driver sign...
...followed by Detroit's Glenn Meyers and Indiana's Ted Hartley. Winner House-holder's average speed was 65.2 m.p.h. To dapper, mustached 29-year-old Ronney Householder, who grew up with the sport and has been carrying his doodlebug around to races in a specially built truck for four years, his $1,500 share of the prize money was the biggest he had ever won. To his colleagues it was conclusive proof that their diminutive sport was rapidly coming...
Doodlebugs first appeared in the U. S. in Los Angeles in 1919 when a group of rich youngsters built midget cars to race around the Junior College Stadium, but midget racing as a recognized U. S. sport is less than five years old. In 1932 a field of eight midgets raced 20 laps around the football field of Los Angeles' Loyola High School. In 1934 Oilman Earl Gilmore built a stadium for midgets at a cost of $134,000. The Gilmore track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named...