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Suddenly (showing that the crazy helter-skelter of tanks was as tightly controlled by radio as a well-commanded platoon of infantry) all the tanks of one adversary wheel out of the fight. The other tanks also go off to a rendezvous...
...year-old Denny Shute of Chicago, a 50-to-1 shot. As for the Texans, Nelson shot 73, Hogan 74, Demaret 75, Guldahl 79. On the second day, play was held up for an hour during a rainstorm that sent an unprepared gallery of 10,000 running helter-skelter for shelter. When the last bedraggled, drenched and mud-caked player turned in his card at dusk, the thundering herd of Texans were still just a distant...
...when the eggs and milt are brought together, fertilization takes place quickly. But experts say that stripping a fighting, kicking steelhead is "like trying to milk a galloping cow with a greased udder." When the fish struggle hardest, large batches of eggs and milt may be sprayed out helter-skelter and lost...
...cars, one of which had had its roof stripped off, they extracted the injured, the dead and the dying. Telescoped into the tender was the Limited's baggage car. Six sleepers, the diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl...
...their own side of the Atlantic during March. This year, with Europe verboten, the habitues of St. Moritz, St. Anton and other Alpine resorts have discovered that the U. S. has pretty good skiing, too. Instead of a troop of self-taught enthusiasts who yell "track" and schuss helter-skelter down a hill, the U. S. now boasts a well-trained army of 1,000,000 or more whose snowplows and Christies are as polished as their skis. Instead of a few isolated trails, there is a nationwide labyrinth of skiing terrain-with villages challenging the Gemutlichkeit of the Austrian...