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Driver Bill Linney, his two bobbers and his brakeman, could have run it with their eyes closed. His brakeman's carefully practiced pushoff (25% of a bobsled race) gave Linney's team a valuable one-tenth second. They rounded hairpin Shady Corner at approximately 57 m.p.h., zoomed around Zig Zag's treacherous S curve. (A General Electric eye timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead...
...headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame, "that I did not care where we landed. . . . I belong to the land and not to the sea or air." Reporting on the wartime U. S., she mentioned the hairpin and elastic shortage, but could give no word on girdles because, unlike the late John Barrymore, "I don't wear...
...Toothpicks, chopsticks, wooden and plastic pins to combat the hairpin shortage...
Last week, darting like a goldfish through the layout of 40 "gates"-including hair-raising hairpin turns, flushes (S curves) and right-angle elbows-Miss Shaw was clocked in the breath-taking time of i min. 44.4 sec. On the same f-mile slalom course earlier in the day, ten top-flight men skiers had competed in Lake Placid's annual Washington's Birthday ski meet. Only three of them had chalked up better time than Miss Shaw's (winning time...
...indications last night pointed to a hairpin turn along the Party line on the part of the Harvard Student Union, the leading proponent of isolationism in the College last year, when the H.S.U. meets tonight in Lowell House to vote on a report of the executive committee which recommends all-out intervention...