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At that point, many Americans were caught up in the great muscle-flexing passion of Manifest Destiny. They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die...
In the western world, medicine is giving disease a run for its money. In the East, disease is still laps and laps ahead.
What the audience was seeing was Cinerama, the 13-year-old brainchild of Inventor Fred Waller of Huntington, N.Y. A new variation on the old theme of three-dimensional movies, Cinerama does not reproduce such old tricks as the baseball thrown straight into the spectators' laps; rather, it seems...
Led at a record-breaking clip by Lee Wallard in his black and gold Belanger Special for the first 100 miles (130.625 m.p.h.), the souped-up speedsters soon began to fall by the wayside. One of the first to make a repair stop (after only five laps) was favored Duke...
From there to the finish it was all Wallard and his Belanger Special, but not without some troubles. He drove the last 50 miles virtually without brakes, lost a shock absorber with twelve laps to go. But by the time he got the black & white mish flag, 40-year-old...