Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inter-House Squash Cup by Bernen S. Prentice...
...roads, once a major sport in the U. S., is now impractical because of heavy traffic. Last week in Manhattan entries closed for a unique event which its promoters hope will restore road racing to its onetime prestige: a .400-mile Columbus Day race for a new Vanderbilt Cup, on Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I. A field of 63 drivers, representing England, Italy, France. Germany and Australia as well as the U. S., will start qualifying trials this week...
Major difference between the races for the cup put up by William K. Vanderbilt in 1904, which was the major event of U. S. auto racing before the War, and next month's race, for which the trophy was donated by his 22-year-old cousin George (brother of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt) will be the road. The original Vanderbilt Cup racecourse was over Long Island's oiled dirt roads. Roosevelt Raceway is an extraordinary establishment conceived by the first U. S. winner (1908) of the old Vanderbilt Cup race. Major George Robertson. After the War Major Robertson...
...Earl Howe. Only U. S. amateur driver entered is Joel Thorne, onetime outboard motorboat champion and grandson of the late Banker Samuel Thorne, who has seven cars in the race, plans to drive one himself. First prize in the Columbus Day race, in addition to the new Vanderbilt Cup, will be $20,000, plus accessory and lap prizes...
...Russell Patterson, Vincent Trotter of Paramount Pictures' Art Department, George B. Petty of Esquire, Photographer Hal Phyfe. Black-haired, blue-eyed Rose Veronica Coyle, 22, of Yeadon, Pa. became "Miss America of 1936," won a trip by air to Hollywood and a screen test.* Convulsively clutching her loving-cup, Rose Veronica Coyle beamed, squealed: "I'm just thrilled to death...