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Helplessness Discouraged. The Weekend authors, who take their avuncular duties seriously, describe hotels and list trains for all college towns. Girls are warned against drinking too much ("No man likes a prude, but it's far worse to have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other...
The Finns thought they had the race to themselves, as they usually have (the great Paavo Nurmi won it twice). For the first few laps last week, it looked as if they were right. Nurmi's protégé, lanky Viljo Heino, set the pace, with a fellow...
Better Than Nurmi. The second of the Finns, bothered by the heat, the humidity and the pace, gave up on the 22nd lap, with three laps to go, and had to be helped off the track. Zatopek himself was grabbing at the right side of his trunks, in obvious pain...
On the 99th lap, Duke pulled his Novi Special into the pits for a scheduled fuel stop. As compressed nitrogen blew fuel from a drum into his tank, the precious seconds ticked away. Before his tank was full, Duke roared back into the race. About 86 laps later, while battling...
The winner was cocksure little (135-Ib.) Mauri Rose, at the wheel of a Blue Crown Special, the same car (four cylinders, front-wheel drive, no superchargers) that he won with last year. After averaging a record 119.8 m.p.h., Rose took two laps for insurance. Then he took a couple...