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...from the other at the halfway mark. Their strategy miscarried when the second car got to the finish line before the first even started. Several boys whose cars had smashed apart crossed the finish line on foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys, a girl won. She was Amelia Aparicio, 13, who had averaged 19 miles an hour in a car designed by her mechanic father. Exclaimed Amelia: "I came determined to win for the Bolivian woman...
...many a loyal follower, particularly among the intellectually self-sciousness of America . . . realizing the grossness of its manners and its mind, and been dismally primitive. To Edmund Wilson, Mencken was, "the civilized consciousness of America . . . realzing the grossness of its manners and its mind, crying out in horror and chagrin . . ." His battles with the censors, one of which caused him to invade Boston and which also caused Felix Caragianes, the Square newsdealer, to be arrested for selling Mencken's "Mercury," are no less admirable today than yesterday. Mr. Kemler's recounting of the Boston incident and the Scopes "Monkey Trial...
...inflation began to get out of hand (1947), they [i.e., the Socialist planners] cut the investment program. When the overseas balance got critical (1949), they tried to ... increase investment that would earn or save dollars. But this is an essentially creative act, and the planners have discovered to their chagrin that they cannot perform it. Their day is therefore over, and that of the businessman-who can do it-has arrived...
...Sails. Sherman remembers his chagrin when he saw his first ship-the Nashiille, an ancient cruiser that had fired the first shot in the Spanish-American War and steamed off to World War I with the help of two sails. Now, he likes to remember his tour in the Nashville as a personal link to the Navy's windjamming past. But staring into salt spray for periscopes did not fit Forrest Sherman's plans for long. He wanted to be a Navy aviator...
...Leafs seemed to have the game sewed up. Then, with 57 seconds to play, a Montreal forward slipped through the Toronto defenses and fired a goal to tie the score. If the Maple Leafs were ruffled by the turn of events-the game ended 3-3-they hid their chagrin behind the masks of dyed-in-the-wool pros.. So did their boss, Constantine Falkland Karrys Smythe...