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Garfield ("Gar") Wood of Detroit builds speedboats - faster speedboats every year bearing the name "Baby Gar" and a numeral. One day last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round...
...since John refused to spend his time in the cinema at Burlington--she did. And the rumor is that she had to go out of Charlotte to get the license, for a tree near the store is proof positive that she could get none in Charlotte. "Wish by gar it had a kilt her," said John. Charlotte has its cynics. Though John has reason to be. Did she not after bearing and bearing with all the twenty children bob her hair--pour le sport. Charlotte is not so far from Deauville in all things...
There was some vague talk of establishing speedy motor boat transportation to Albany if the Gar Wood match boxes cut the train time appreciably, but the race proved merely that a hurried New Yorker might save twelve minutes through going by water. Even at that he would probably have to carry a spare boat with him because only one of the two boats was able to finish out the race. There may, possibly be a place for Mr. Wood as legislative courier. He can hover near the New York water-front, engines warming up, and then whisk a Senator...
...Palm Beach, a speed boat belonging to Gar Wood, famed Detroit sportsman, rushed at high speed along an inland waterway, leaped over the bank onto the land, broke down a tree, buried itself in the underbrush, was wrecked...
...Paris, as in many other parts of France, particularly in Alsace and Lorraine, the religious question (TIME, Sept. 8) is a favorite topic for conversation. Men, and sometimes women, gather at their favorite cafe and after a preliminary garçon, une fine champagne, or un bock, s'il vous plaît, they lean forward over their tables and start the conversation with: Qu'est-ce que se passe en Alsace Lorraine; qu'est-ce que se passera? Herriot, que va-t-il faire...