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...Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida's 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. "hemi-head" engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough's Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h...
...tried, avoids cafe society in favor of roaring days on the track, quiet evenings at home. But he is far from unsophisticated. Asked after the wedding what had gone on at his bachelor's party, he quipped: "We sat around and crocheted and then we had a musi-cale!" Just then he noticed a lensman shooting pictures of Jill and him from a worm's-eye view. "That's an interesting angle," observed Reventlow. "You must have shot many stag films...
...himself for a long trudge homeward to the tiny Apennine village of Luco on that chill evening about 17 years ago, there was at least one individual in worse straits than he-a small mongrel dog marooned on a ledge beneath a bridge crossing the icy torrent of Le Cale. Crossing the bridge, Carlo heard the dog's whimpering, and clambered down to save it. From that moment on, Carlo and Fido, "the faithful "one," were fast friends. On holidays they went hunting together, and on workdays Fido invariably escorted his master to the San Lorenzo...
...presidency without the wholehearted support of the faction led by the other. Within the hour after Ike was nominated, Taft pledged his support; then he left for a Canadian vacation, and many Taft partisans began to drag their feet. Their feeling was voiced by Indiana's Republican Chairman Cale J. Holder: "Until Bob Taft blows the bugle, a lot of us aren't going to fight in the army...
Died. Alice Hegan Rice, 72, author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, wife of Poet Cale Young Rice; in Louisville, Ky. Published in 1901, the gently humorous story of a down-at-heels widow and her five children stayed among the leading-best-sellers for years afterward. It was Mrs. Rice's first novel. Dramatized, it became a longtime stock-company standby. The book was translated into half a dozen foreign languages...