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Barriers &Penalties. Setting out in standard stock cars from such widely divergent starting points as Lisbon, Palermo, Oslo, Glasgow, Munich and Athens, the contestants ran through natural and national barriers with little difficulty. The race, as always, was to the most precise rather than the swiftest, and contestants were penalized for breakdowns, delays, missing an obligatory checkpoint or being caught exceeding the 65-kilometer (40 m.p.h.) speed limit...
...novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work on a biography of Virginia Novelist Ellen Glasgow...
After working on other Arkansas papers, Glasgow joined the New York Herald Tribune as a general assignment reporter, soon became its labor reporter working out of New York. Following a wartime hitch in the Merchant Marine, he returned to his old beat in time to cover the wave of labor troubles and strikes that swept the country in the year following V-J day. In 1947 Glasgow went to Harvard on a Nieman fellowship to study industrial and human relations. "It was," he says, "a reporter's dream, the opportunity to study the background of some of the contemporary...
After Harvard, the Tribune sent Glasgow to Chicago as its Midwest correspondent. He came to TIME in 1950, assigned to the Chicago bureau. Some of the TIME stories he covered include the Cicero race riots of 1951, the tragic West Frankfort, Ill coal mine disaster, the rise of Adlai Stevenson and his political campaign, some notably quotable reporting on the home life of Dr. Alfred Kinsey for the TIME cover story...
With eleven children to support, conscientious Coal Miner Willie Farrel, who neither smokes nor drinks, prefers to work all his holidays. In his twelve years at Scotland's Mauchline Colliery near Glasgow, Farrell has been off only twice, once to stay at home when his wife was having a baby, another time to go to the hospital to have his ulcers treated. By working on all of his regular days off and on his two-week paid vacation each year, Willie got double pay for a lot of his time...