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In each of four dusky projection rooms at 1600 Broadway last week, a small group of schoolteachers, pencils poised over marking blanks in their laps, sat watching the antics of Mickey Mouse, an erupting volcano, travelogs, Bobby Jones measuring a fairway. Part of an ambitious project that has been going...
Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola...
Running a two-mile race as a program filler at last year's Princeton Invitation Track Meet, barrel-chested Donald Ray Lash of the University of Indiana proceeded to dash the eight laps in the fastest time ever recorded for the distance outdoors. This year Princeton, hoping for another...
¶ "That's crazy as hell!" was the Rideouts' reply last week to stories that they somehow tricked Don Lash at New Orleans. Racing on boards for the first time at the Millrose Games last week, Blaine Rideout ran off the inside of the track on the fifth...
On the first day, Jerry Rodman's front wheel collapsed when he was pedaling at 25 miles an hour. On the second, the crowd watched a dentist line up his tools beside the track, extract a wisdom tooth from Heinz Vopel. On the third, sturdy-legged Franco Georgetti, trying...