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...choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio. Discovery has the bleep-bloop piano playing of Beryl Booker with her trio. Capitol includes Lennie Tristano and his fantastic a-rhythmical meanderings in a new clutch...
Senior third baseman Ray Maesaka led the varsity, collecting two of the Crimson's six bits. The varsity's lose run came in the fifth innings on a 3single by short stop Hal McKinney, a forcoout, a walk, and Bill Cleary's clutch hit. The Terriers' runs came in the sixth and eighth innings...
...Fangio's Lancia went out with what the Lancia pits called ignition trouble (the word went round that it had really suffered a broken gearbox or a snapped rear axle). Midway, Taruffi's Lancia (No. 38) held the lead, but Ascari's Lancia was out with clutch trouble...
...sick. There was still a chance that Taruffi's mechanics could get it started again. Striving to remain eligible, Taruffi himself pushed the car an agonizing 1½ miles to the pits. But it was no use; the Lancia never got started. Cunningham's Osca, brakes and clutch almost gone, held on to take first. It had covered 884 miles in twelve hours, at an average speed of 73.6 m.p.h. Porfirio Rubirosa's Lancia, its gearbox all but wrecked, finished second. Said Winning Driver Bill Lloyd: "Nothing surprises me in an endurance race...
...sporting world these and all statistics speak ever so much louder than words, even words which have been shoed for five decades. In the record books these statistics may become glorious chronologies of a fertile tradition which somehow pulls a losing team through in the clutch. Mysteriously, they can send out feelers into the schoolboy world, attracting potential stars who want to continue a tradition or learn a sport better than they can anywhere else...