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Often soaked to the skin, but not miserable, these hardy souls trooped doggedly to the Eiffel Tower (7,000 a day), the Louvre, Montmartre, the Arc de Triomphe and Notre Dame, determined to chalk up an enduring memory or two regardless of weather. It was a sad commentary on the Queen of Cities that her greatest attraction this year appeared to be her famed sewers, whose daily attendance was three times normal. Each day, record rows of tourists lined up at the manhole in the Place de la Concorde to take the tour through the ancient, labyrinthine tunnels in wooden...
...stubby little biplane leveled off at 5,000 ft. over the tawny fields of Burgundy. In the rear cockpit, a Russian parachutist carefully checked his equipment. When he spotted a white chalk cross on the ground below, he stepped off into space. For 20 seconds he fell free. Then his nylon chute blossomed overhead and he began to drift downwind, past his target. Tugging skillfully at his suspension lines, he spilled air from his chute and slipped back toward the cross. He touched down only four yards short of the mark...
...drew up a special teacher's manual to go with it. Since then he has been writing to hundreds of educators and industrialists, has spoken often at workshops and banquets. Though some campuses have dismissed his course as a bit on the brash side, he has managed to chalk up an impressive record. His ideas have been taken over in whole or in part everywhere from the University of Buffalo and Drake University to Boston University...
...Chalk & Flour. The day their prize outfielder was separated from the Army, the Giants had a savvy scout named Frank Forbes, 61, waiting at the gate to take him in tow. An oldtime Negro athlete (baseball, basketball and boxing), Forbes is the professional godfather to the Giants' Negro ballplayers. With his other charges safely married, Forbes's main preoccupation is Willie...
...might get mixed up with. He'd have to live in Harlem, and believe me, that can be a bad place, full of people just waiting to part an innocent youngster from his money. Somebody had to see to it that Willie wasn't exploited, sift the chalk from the flour, figure out who was in a racket and who was representing a decent organization...