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...Negro and virtually a pauper, but plucky little Mary McLeod Bethune was also a dreamer. In 1904, with only $1.50 in cash, she started a school for Negro girls in Daytona Beach, Fla., and then she wanted none other than Soap Tycoon James N. Gamble, son of the founder of Procter & Gamble, to be a trustee. "But where," asked Gamble as he gazed at her shacklike building on the former city dump known as Hell's Hole, "is this school of which you wish me to be a trustee?" "In my mind," replied Mary Bethune. "And in my soul...
Worry Wart. As the championships got underway last week in Daytona Beach's Welch Municipal Pool, the sleek-muscled star of the Walter Reed Swim Club* had more reason to collapse than to set records. All night Shelley Mann (daughter of an electrical engineer) had lain awake worrying. Even the presence of Tommy, her good-luck Teddy bear, had not lulled her to sleep. In the morning, she ground out a fast 58.9-second qualifying dash for the 100-yd. freestyle. Later, she led her qualifying heat once again as she clocked 5:31.8 in the punishing...
...varsity swimmer from the University of North Carolina, modest Stan Tinkham inherited the team in the spring of 1954, when he took over from a talented but terrible-tempered civilian named James Leonard Campbell. That April, when the squad left for Daytona, everyone predicted disaster. Tinkham brought home a team of winners...
...roaring speed demon; its 1,971-cc., six-cylinder engine kicks it along at a conservative 115 m.p.h. maximum. But in a race such as this, René argues, the driver means almost as much as the car. "Any taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., and Bob Grier, president of the Motor Sports Club of America, to fill...
...highly skilled workers take it for granted that the new car will be a winner, for their company has a pace-setting tradition. Old Karl Benz invented one of the first gasoline engines, built racers which set such speed marks as Barney Oldfield's 131-m.p.h. pace on Daytona Beach's measured mile in 1910. Gottlieb Daimler, whose company merged with Benz's in 1926, built the first practical gasoline-driven car, and turned out luxurious limousines for royalty (e.g., England's Queen Alexandra and Germany's own Kaiser Wilhelm). After the merger, Daimler-Benz...