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Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
After the race the Imp and her three competitors were shipped to Detroit for a four-day regatta which includes the unrestricted British-U. S. race for the Harmsworth trophy...
...Perhaps you play poker in your spare time?" asked a news imp. Still unruffled, the Agent General answered, "There's not much of that in Berlin now, but I do manage to get sufficient relaxation...
...There," he said, "you young devil, that will teach you to steal potatoes from the army and sell them to dirty food speculators. You have the red head of an imp from hell and the black heart of a capitalist. We have done with...
...first heat Baby Water Car of Detroit turned over. In the second Imp of New York hit a buoy. Hotsy Totsy of New York took fire. Greenwich Folly had to average only 48 miles per hour for three 30-mile heats...