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...flipping the same air, like a stale pancake, from level to level for six years. It is also hinted that the blinking and gurgling neon lights are designed to keep people awake. If so, success is not entirely apparent, for some drowsy lads always sleep through the 2:15 grind, only to get the Administration's axe. Perhaps the aggressive girl who fires the buzzer late in the evening could give it a short squeal before the afternoon exams. This might have the additional advantage of frightening away the yearly surplus of panicked law students who invade Lamont. The librarians...
...fewer (by 39%) and bigger movies, leaving highly paid cameramen, contract actors and a horde of stagehands in the slack time. Warner's venture was only the latest. Among the others: ¶Columbia Pictures, facing up to the dollars-and-cents facts of its overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin. The studio makes about $7,000,000 worth of TV films a year (as compared to $80 million for its regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely...
...Yale University, a pair of Hawaiians, Ford Konno and Yoshi Oyakawa, both swimming for Ohio State, won four National A.A.U. titles. Konno, after splashing home in front in the 220-yd. free style, set a meet record with a 4:28.2 quarter-mile grind. Oyakawa, sticking to his backstroke specialty, took the 100-yd. and 220-yd championships...
...other auto race in the U.S. quite compares to the Sebring grind. It is the only American competition that counts toward the World Sports Car Championship. Sebring's 5.2 miles of brief straightaways, wicked switchbacks and unbanked turns are as trying for men as they are on machines. Points scored at Sebring are so prized by the racing fraternity that the world's best drivers compete there, although the race is without cash prizes...
...conservative 115 m.p.h. maximum. But in a race such as this, René argues, the driver means almost as much as the car. "Any taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors, Inc., and Bob Grier, president of the Motor Sports Club of America, to fill out his team, René has high hopes that all his Arnolt-Bristols will finish...