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...expected, the speedy Italian entries took the early lead. Italy's World Champion Alberto Ascari, driving a 4.5-liter Ferrari, whirled one lap (about 8½ miles) at a record 111.5 m.p.h. American Johnny Fitch, in a Briggs Cunningham Special, set a kilometer record at 155 m.p.h. But the race was not to the early swift...
After the season a tremendous controversy started over de-emphasis. The Debate Council scheduled a giant meeting where Captain Cheek was to attack football emphasis. But when the debate was opened to include outsiders--Bill Cunningham of the Boston Post and Frank "Iron Man" Cavanaugh, Boston College coach--Cheek withdrew. The CRIMSON ran an editorial calling for deemphasis, and at the debate Cavanaugh bitterly attacked the Crimeds, adding that anyone at Dartmouth who suggested that football was overemphasized would be shot at dawn. Cunningham added that "strangely enough, you seldom hear the attack launched by football men. The rabid reformers...
...Ames, Iowa, Kansas Olympian Wes Santee, winging around the track in the Big Seven championships, set a new collegiate mile record of 4:06.3, clipping four-tenths of a second off the old mark set by another famed Kansan, Glenn Cunningham...
...investigator, Transit Grain paid about $15,000 to two of Fell-rath's assistants, and another $36,000 to C. J. Winters, manager of a state-owned elevator in New Orleans, for similar services. Transit Grain was also charged with picking up some hotel bills for George C. Cunningham, a CCC official in Dallas, who was also in on the deal...
News of the latest grain scandal first leaked out last month, when Houston's port commission fired Manager Fellrath and his assistants; CCC's Cunningham promptly resigned, and New Orleans...