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...last fortnight, shocked and startled, Clayton learned more about the holdup-and about itself. After nearly two months of silent brooding in the red brick jail at Adrian, young Simpson talked. Floyd McFall, full of dull anger at being ostracized and in fear of going broke, had put him up to the robbery, he said, and had agreed to hide him and help him get away afterward. McFall was jailed. Police said that he confessed, but at Simpson's trial McFall denied any part in the holdup...
Today, going on 40, the Babe has forsaken all forms of sport except golf. She is star and chief drawing card of the women's professional golf troupe which last fortnight began its ten-month barnstorming tour in Tampa...
...Dorado, Packard its Caribbean, and Oldsmobile its Fiesta. Kaiser-Frazer plans to bring out a fiber-glass plastic roadster this spring. Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...
Exam days are always the dog days at the University. And the tail of the canine droops even lower when students find all their exams bunched into the beginning of the exam period. During the unhappy fortnight just passed, courses given at three of the most popular times--ten and eleven o'clock--tested their students during the first four days of the period. A glance at the spring schedule shows that this will happen again in April...
...fortnight ago in the "Hog Pen," Rio Grande's dilapidated gymnasium, Bevo ran wild against Ashland (Ky.) Junior College. During the closing five minutes of the game, Coach Oliver shouted instructions to his players, ordering them to foul their opponents deliberately so that Rio Grande could get the ball and "feed" Bevo. Bevo's final total: 116 points, an intercollegiate scoring record for one game...