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...track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just before this year's race when bricks were re-laid at Gateway Leap, the name of the bump on the southwest turn. Re-paving failed to eliminate the bump. Drivers say the track is getting rougher. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, oldtime race driver who manages the Speedway, says it is smoothing out from yearly traffic. The Automobile Club of Michigan last week called for a change: "Three deaths this...
...incidental animals and things contrast with Mickey's seriousness, act with fantastic playfulness. A swarm of canary chicks will escape Mickey's cage, light in unison on a table. Suddenly they all go into a dance, do a double shuffle, a stationary skating motion and bump fundaments by twos. Audiences roar with astonishment. Mickey's cat and dog chase one another into a pair of drawers on a line. The drawers stand up and do a buck & wing. A bedspring rises on end. Mickey twangs the strings and it becomes a harp. Anything may take on life...
...face at a speed terrifying to behold. Partway down was an unnoticed little rise in the snow. When they hit that, the skiers were shot through the air for 50 ft. Of the 16 contestants, Gasperl of Austria and Kjelland of Norway miraculously lit upright after hitting the bump, and shot on down the hill instead of cannonballing askew in a flying tangle of arms, legs and skis. The winners were timed at a speed never before reached by man on his feet -a world's record of 100 m.p.h. (1932 record: 89 m.p.h...
...heavy weather. By her greater speed she will more than regain, according to Sperry tests, the time and distance she loses by tacking, estimated at about 15%. To make this clear to landlubbers. Sperry salts compare "stabilized tacking" to speeding over 115 mi. of boulevard instead of choosing to bump slowly over 100 mi. of cobblestones...
...have been perused and appreciated far more thoroughly by the outside world than by the under-graduates and this sad fact brings a furtive tear to the editorial eye. It is a great commentary on the stability and solidity of Bryn Mawr undergraduates that an editorial intended to bump the student body gently succeeded only in rocking America to its very foundations. Of course, we feel duly complimented by the uproar we caused in the papers and over the radio, but we are a little abashed to find that the campus looked as charmingly careless on Monday as usual...