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...above Bretigny airport outside Paris, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, 36, spirited daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, nosed a Mystere II French jet fighter into a near-vertical dive, cracked the sound barrier at 687.5 m.p.h. to become the world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran...
Flying a Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...
Quonset pitcher Jim Cochran fired a one-hitter against Coach Norm Shepard's team. Joe Conzelman got the only hit, a single, for Harvard...
...then went to work for the Democratic National Committee, writing speeches under Cochran and Cohen. "I was a sort of a sub-ghost," he explains. "I wrote some things for Roosevelt, but none of them were flamboyant phrases that everyone remembers. In fact, I opposed the 'rendezvous with destiny' speech, because it seemed pretty corny...
...rest of the Bruin varsity, Art Cochran looked good when he took a second in the New England A.A.U meet last week in the 600, and Frank Reed excise in the distance runs. Ed Donaldson is Brown's only top-flight sprinter. Their quarter-miler, Gene Whitlock, was ruled ineligible last week...