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Seattle had its revenge. Rhodes and Muncey headed for the winner's circle. They got there just in time to hear Miss Thrijtway disqualified for hitting a buoy. Bellowing with rage, Muncey swarmed up the framework of the judges' stand. It was bad enough to hear that he had been done out of the Gold Cup again; it was unbearable to hear that the new winner was Detroit's Miss Pepsi...
Miss Thrijtway, had demolished the buoy, they claimed. What's more, the television movies would prove it. Nonplused, the racing committee finally passed the buck to the American Power Boat Association, which may take up to 60 days to decide on a winner. By that time, the Gold Cup could be tarnished for fair. Roly-poly Horace Dodge, playboy heir to the Dodge car fortune, claims that he was illegally kept from qualifying for the cup in Dora My Sweetie. He has a court order requiring the race committee to show cause why the Gold Cup should...
...sports-car prototype hand-built in Turin for the Chrysler Corp. Down went 1,764 bags of mail, together with crates of antiques and cases of vintage wines. When the writhing sea was still, the Coast Guard cutter Evergreen dropped a temporary tombstone: a yellow marker buoy...
...When he does react, it is by mugging or with a boogey slouch which gives an unfortunate impression of adolescent youth. Because Adams seems unable to throw himself completely into the part, and in spite of Miss Boyko's strenuous efforts to rush through her lines in order to buoy the play, the pace lags...
...camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...