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...whole, however, Mannequin does not depart perceptibly from the customary Crawford orbit-an upsy-daisy chute-the-chutes ride, with shrieks and giggles on the hairpin .turns and a happy splash at the end. With all the shiny morality and cultural lag of an old Will Hays collar, Mannequin tells the tale of a slum girl who tries to dodge her environment by marrying a self-confessed heel, gets a shot from love's hypo herself when she meets an honest tugboat tycoon...
...From the Post Office the Tribune got a warning, replied with an apology. From public opinion it received the most damaging attack that a U. S. newspaper has had to stand for since a Hearst photographer dangerously crowded Col. Charles Lindbergh's car to the curb on a hairpin curve three years ago, snapped a picture of Baby...
...Brivio took the lead. Nuvolari, on his way again long before anyone else could catch up, took it back after the next lap, kept it to the end. After his 75th trip around the four-mile course - at 150 m.p.h. down the straightaway, less than 40 m.p.h. around the hairpin turns, for a 66 m.p.h. average - he waved to the judges and slowed down. While France's Jean Wimille in a Bugatti passed Count Brivio, whose motor had overheated on the last ten miles just enough to cost him second place, Nuvolari paused at the end of the track...
...from Chicago to Boulder City at 100 m. p. h., carrying an "iron lung", to save Allan Dexter's life. Before it reaches its destination, The Silver Streak barely escapes being wrecked at a drawbridge which closes a split second before the train arrives at full speed; rounds a hairpin turn at 100 m. p. h.; narrowly misses being derailed by a sleepy switchman; grazes a freight train; gets out of control on a downgrade when a passenger hits Tom Caldwell...
Although the race will be on a circuit of approximately half a mile, the course has been arranged with a view to constructing it as realistically as possible. Two hairpin turns, six right-angle turns, numerous bends and one sharp hill help to relieve the monotony of the regular fiat track...