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Died. Berna Eli ("Barney") Oldfield, 68, daredevil of the dirt track at the dawn of the motor age, first auto racer to drive a mile a minute, whose name gave a U.S. generation a synonym for speed; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...daredevil, not-so-young Britons flew faster last week than men had ever flown before in level flight. At Herne Bay, England, a Gloster Meteor jet plane, piloted by Group Captain H. J. ("Willie") Wilson, 37, of the R.A.F. made four 70-mile runs at an average speed of 606 miles per hour.-In the same type of plane, Eric Greenwood, 38, of the Gloster Aircraft Co. flew nearly as fast. For a while Greenwood thought he had the record. When photographic timing showed him beaten, he was ready with the British sportsman's typical comment: "Really? Good...
...then on Friday they were the victims of Keith Miller's three-hit pitching as the Tigers, finding a sudden power at the plate, won 14 to 0. Other games in a busy week saw the Tigers nip the Cards 3 to 1 on Al Ogden's daredevil base running, the Dodgers edged the Cards 3 to 2, and the Browns took undisputed possession of first by downing the Dodgers 4 to 1. Club Standing W L Browns 5 1 Beavers 4 2 Tigers 3 2 Dodgers 2 4 Cardinals...
Copper-Bellied Corpse. The American folk who emerge from this lore are robust, daredevil, imaginative, fond of broad humor, tender love, great deeds, crude, rude, sometimes full of noble sentiment, sometimes intolerant. They glorify outlaws (Jesse James, Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid), poke fun at woodsmen (Mike Fink, Davy Crockett), sanctify Johnny Appleseed. The U.S. gift for tall talk is flaunted in Sven, the Hundred Proof Irish man, and speeches by General Buncombe ("Sir, we want elbow room - the continent, the whole continent - and nothing but the continent"). The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted...
Correspondents who interviewed Major Howard found no daredevil youngster, but a lanky, quiet-spoken, 30-year-old veteran air fighter with thinning reddish hair, a slow smile. They also found that the "one-man-air-force's" private war with the Luftwaffe had lasted for about 30 minutes, and included at least five combats with individual Nazi planes within the pattern of the general melee...