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...road to fame & fortune at 16. Lee Frayer, manager of the Frayer-Miller Automobile Company, advertised his product by racing it. He took tough, skinny, worshipful Eddie Rickenbacker, already a crack mechanic, to Garden City, Long Island, to ride with him in the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Eddie found it an intoxicating experience. For the next six years -grease-stained, speed-mad, and thirsting for glory like an Osage brave-he crisscrossed the continent as a combination car salesman, trouble shooter, racing mechanic and dirt-track driver. Then, at 22, he hit for the big time...
...loved Greek was held back by five who hated it, when the ten really earnest Greek scholars in a class could get on no farther or faster than they could drag fifty others who cared nothing about it, is gone by. The results of our system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor...