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Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!. . . Moloch whose name is the Mind...
...average of $340,000 each day of the three-month winter meeting. Old-timers fondly recall the track's early years, when races were rigged, payoff prices were faked, and a nearby electrical shop offered specialties for jockeys: "A little battery to stimulate your own horse, or a dynamo big enough to electrocute the rest of the field...
Died. Robert Allen Futterman, 33, steely-minded dynamo of the real estate industry who in seven years of 100-hour work weeks rose from a $300-a-month Manhattan rent collector to the presidency of his own corporation, boasting $100 million assets in 27 cities; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Manhattan...
...full retreat from Hitler's Panzers toward the Channel ports when Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill's Secretary of State for War, gave the only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them...
...center court last week like a souped-up Nijinsky. The gallery loved it. What had been shaping up as the dullest Wimbledon tournament of the century was suddenly infused with zest and excitement, and the credit belonged entirely to the 20-year-old, 5-ft. 8-in., 163 lb. dynamo from St. Louis. "Chunky Chuck looks like a rock but moves like a dragonfly," said a British newsman. Marveled the London Times: "He plays most of the time with both feet off the ground...