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After escaping a police dragnet Friday, Gilday hid for more than 30 hours in a basement cellar. At 9 a.m. Sunday, he emerged in Haverhill, Mass. and forced his way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huberdeau while Huberdeau was out getting milk. Returning, Huberdeau found Gilday holding his wife at gun-point...
...Little White Dove both jumped in the river, and both drowned when the raging river pulled them down. But Running Bear stayed up a bit longer, and similarly, I think Brown will win this game today before both teams start on the merry path to the Ivy League cellar...
...Cellar-Cured Tires. Th's year's Tour victory was worth $10,000, which Eddy gave away to his teammates and to charity. He could afford to. His other purses, plus endorsements, will bring his income close to $375,000 this year. But money is the least of it-or so he insists. Unlike most racers, Merckx did not take up the sport to escape from poverty. The son of a well-to-do Brussels grocer, Eddy says simply: "I pedal because I love to ride a bike." He was barely 19 in 1964, when...
...some 21,000 miles during the nine-month season. He starts training each year with a modest 30-to 40-mile daily practice, soon works up to 90 to 125 miles a day. A perfectionist, he "cures" his tires by storing them for three years in a cool, dry cellar. His bikes are like nothing ever seen in the local sports shop: an 181-lb. model with ten speeds for the sprints, a more rugged 22-lb. version with twelve speeds for the mountains...
...more plausible. Without examining the composer's temporal bones, no one can be certain. When his skull was exhumed in 1863 and 1888, those bones were missing. Evidently they were saved at the time of the original autopsy. Stevens and Hemenway conclude that "perhaps in a forgotten cellar in Vienna, a small formalin-filled jar holds the answer...