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...last and perhaps the most important ingredient in Hogan's stew was one the fates added. It happened when he was 36, on a lonely stretch of road in Texas, the night a Greyhound bus crashed head-on into his Cadillac. As he lay in Hotel Dieu hospital in El Paso, down to about 105 Ibs., he had plenty of time to meditate-about the past, the present and the hereafter. When Valerie talked with him during visiting hours, the subject of golf was never mentioned. Asked by a newspaperman if he would ever play again, Hogan answered vaguely...
...HOGAN is not likely to worry about where his next meal is coming from for some time. A good businessman, he has money coming in from tournaments and exhibitions. Over & above that, he collects an annual levy from the Greyhound Bus Corp. (an estimated $25,000 a year for ten years) as a result of his accident...
Soon the fog had spread over the entire city. At least 25 people were injured stumbling through its gloom; King George VI had to cancel a trip to the theater-his first evening out since his operation three months ago; greyhound racing at the White City was abandoned because dogs couldn't see the hare; and a mallard duck flying blind over central London slammed into Victoria Station and crash-landed on No. 6 platform...
...gambling spirit may be kept alive in the evening by another trip to Revere, this time to Wonderland, the greyhound track. But all the aging greyhounds look alike, and the rabbit wins every race, so Boston Dog racing is only a little more refined than a crap game.Almost anyone can come to a crew race. Pictured above are three Boston University students and a friend from Tufts mingling with the Harvards. At this Juncture In the Cambridge regatta the boats were abreast of these spectator. The pin stripe suit on the boy in the left foreground is typical...
...combat soldiers and a two-man crew. Other Piasecki models: the 20-passenger H-21, equipped with pontoons for rescue work on snow, ice, water or marsh; the experimental XH-16, with a fuselage as big as a DC-4, and a detachable cargo "pod" the size of a Greyhound...