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...single leg, but he had won the first section of the Gran Premio and its first prize of 114,000 pesos ($23,450). Said Domingo, chewing on a big cigar: "I kept my eyes on the road, that's all." The race had cost ten lives (one driver, two mechanics, seven bystanders), left nearly 100 drivers stranded along the road, practically ruined 138 good automobiles. What cars were left would now be shipped to Lima, Peru, where the second and shorter section of the Gran Premio, back over the mountains to Luján, near Buenos Aires, would begin...
Adding up the payload for a single westbound flight, Pilot Stewart finds on his bill of lading: the blonde, who is a truant from her honeymoon, an escaping embezzler (Porter Hall), a G.I. and his bride, a corpse, a shipment of whitefish, some live lobsters and a cigar-smoking chimpanzee. Before the flight has ended, the passengers have jounced through a forced landing (made partly because of weather, partly to pick up a few rustic gags from amiable Farmer Percy Kilbride, who keeps the New England accent flying in darkest Oklahoma), and reached several forced decisions...
Only in the third period did the situation look Blue, with the Elis twice punching deep into Crimson territory. But after Kenary's fourth quarter interception, trying to kindle the Yale offense was like puffing on a dead cigar Yale was through...
Explanation of this amazing circumstance is simple. A local candy maker, anxious to find just the right evocative name to describe his latest confection, was swept away by a zeal for imagery; "Pom Poms" are the result, now on sale at your favorite drug or cigar store...
...Chicago, Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart appeared at 7 a.m. Wearing a cigar at a jaunty angle, trailed by a delegation of Indiana politicians which included the late Wendell Willkie's son, Philip, Homer stepped aboard the hushed train. A bodyguard barred the way to the Dewey bedroom. The candidate was not to be disturbed; he had set aside this morning for sleeping. The Victory Special rocked on into Indiana while Mr. Dewey slept on and Capehart and party huddled in car No. 3, an ordinary Pullman for miscellaneous visitors. Capehart was boiling. Not until three...