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...clutch is worth two with the bases empty. At least, it should be when the varsity baseball team faces Bowdoin at 3:45 p.m. this afternoon on Soldiers Field...
...quarts of oil, a cup of black coffee, and sped on again. On his medium-sized (350 lbs.) new American model a Harley-Davidson KRTT, which had such standard equipment as four-gear transmission and some unique features of its own (a foot shift, a hand clutch), Goldsmith finally lapped most of the field...
...been in uncertain health for years, and he was a heavy guzzler who often showed up tipsy at official functions. When he returned to Prague, he looked well enough as he briskly reviewed an honor guard at the airport. But the next day he was ill. A clutch of doctors, including two Russians, called to his bedside in Hradcany Castle (medieval seat of the Bohemian kings), diagnosed his trouble as pneumonia and pleurisy...
Amidst the twittering that precedes any children's program, the orchestra seated itself kitty-cornered across stage right. Actors in monkey suits planted narrow banners with simply designed pictures of jungle palms on the left. Onstage came a clutch of people wearing elephant heads -and the show was on. The story took the little elephant from his African jungle to the big city, into a school ("Good children in the front, bad children in the back"), into virtual slavery in a circus, and finally back into the jungle, where Babar married the princess, became king, and lived happily ever...
Chrysler's Plymouth division began production last week of a new semiautomatic hydraulic transmission system similar to Dodge's fluid drive. With it, the clutch is used only to get into high gear and reverse; after that, no shifting is needed. Plymouth, which will get into full production by April, expects to sell Hy-Drive on 40% of its 1953 output. Cost as optional equipment: $145.80, or at least $30 cheaper than the automatic drives of competitors...