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...average U.S. car-owner has a definite and jaundiced image of a hot-rod: a souped-up old jalopy driven by some wild-eyed youngster, usually seen bulling through traffic, fenders flapping and exhaust stacks rumbling. But last week, on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, a superior sort of hot-rod was in evidence: handsome, beautifully tuned machines built by safety-conscious young men who could talk intelligent shop with any engineer in Detroit...
...first Brandau and Kooser used silver iodide, sprayed through extensions on their planes' exhaust pipes. Eventually, to cut down expenses, they replaced the iodide with goop which seemed to work just as well. One man, flying high (up to 35,000 ft.) over the tops of thunderheads, seeds them with dry goop. Below the clouds, the other plane sprays a solution of superheated goop. Some ten minutes later, rain usually falls. Hail, so they claim, has no chance to form...
...boat can be a yachtsman. Last week an estimated half million or so of them were sluicing along under sail, while another 4,300,000 owners of power boats of one kind or another ("stinkpots" to sailors) were chugging up & down U.S. waterways, happily laying down fumes of exhaust...
...Playing Time (Frankie Froba; Decca LP). Oldtime Jazz Pianist Froba has an easygoing keyboard approach. His selections-Moonglow, How High the Moon, Stardust on the Moon, Moonlight on the Ganges, Moonlight Saving Time, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon Over Miami and Blue Moon-should just about exhaust the subject...
...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...