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While Harvard men and their dates enjoy an exclusive Ivy-League-brand Spring Weekend, thousands of college students all over the country will just be exhausting their stories of spring vacation. These are the 125,000 students who flocked to Fort Lauderdale and Daytona Beach for the annual "spring invasion" which is fast becoming an American folk legend...
This year was better than ever for the two resorts; both Lauderdale and Daytona were packed from about March 20 through April 5. Students came from colleges all over the country, some at considerable sacrifice, spending about as much time on the road as in Florida. Most, however, were there for at least a week, and had an opportunity to be members of a unique society that comes into existence only once a year...
...were the students who comprised the 73,000 or more in Daytona and almost that many in Lauderdale? While no tally was taken in Daytona, fairly precise "registration" figures are available for Lauderdale, which, contrary to common impression, is far from being a "has been" for the spring vacation crowd...
...average vacationer in Lauderdale or Daytona is one of his more surprising characteristics. The majority of the students seemed to be at least juniors, and many were recent graduates, graduate students, or on a leave of absence. There were almost no freshmen. "Where the boys are" is as appropriate a name as ever; the boys outnumber the girls by about five to one, in both Lauderdale and Daytona. By the middle of the week, when many of the girls have been picked up, the ratio becomes much more unfavorable -- something like a Radcliffe jolly...
Bertram entries in last week's race included Lucky Moppie, his own 31-footer, equipped with twin 380-h.p. Daytona Marine engines; Vivacity, a 38-ft., diesel-powered Bertram owned by British Newspaper Publisher Max Aitken; and Rum Runner, a 31-ft. bomb, driven by Florida's Harold Abbott, whose twin 521-h.p. Holman-Moody Ford engines made it the most powerful boat in the race. For competition, there were 32 other boats. General Motors pinned its hopes on Allied 36 and Allied GX, a pair of 40-ft. monsters powered by twin 315-h.p. G.M. diesels. From...