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Speed, a modern goddess, exacts fierce allegiance from those who worship her in motorboats, airplanes, automobiles. Among Speed's most faithful devotees was Major Sir Henry O'Neal Dehane Segrave. Last year in his monster car, the Golden Arrow, at Daytona Beach, Fla. he set a new world automobile record of 231.36 m. p. h. In March he was fined ?5 for driving his private car 45 m. p. h. in Hampstead. People smiled at that story. Segrave, who had said he was through with auto racing, seemed to be keeping his word. But Segrave was continuing...
Died. Dr. John Carlton Jones, 74, president-emeritus of University of Missouri, oldtime classicist, philosopher; from cerebral hemorrhage; at Daytona Beach...
...Unrepresented at the New York International Flower Show was John Davison Rockefeller Sr. But in a flower show sponsored by the Halifax Garden Club of Daytona Beach, Fla., near his Ormond Beach winter home, he last week won two blue ribbons for a large basket of deep magenta petunias and a pot of Easter lilies, clapped his withered hands...
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...
...known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...