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Bonthron's customary strategy is to stay close behind a rival he fears, scare him into running fast, cut him down in the last 200 yards. But, says Lovelock, "I always run as slowly as I can." Last week, on the rough clay track, cut up by a touring...
L'Auto, Paris sportpaper, founded the race in 1903 as a circuit of the Auvergne highlands, enlarged it by stages to its present scale. L'Auto foots the bills for meals & lodging, furnishes to each contestant his bicycle, as many tires as he can wear out, $2.64 per...
Portland, Ore., pure in morals if not in grammar, last week put into effect a new ordinance for places of amusement: "No floor entertainer shall be permitted to in any way come in physical contact with any patron." Object: to keep night club hostesses out of the laps of businessmen...
At Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Nellie Coffman runs the expensive Desert Inn to which tired film actors and actresses often go for a quick rest. Mrs. Coffman found that riding horses was not so popular with her famed guests. Riding requires a warm and weighty costume, and many a Californian...
Blaming Harvard for most of its woes, the C.T.B.E.S.R. then proceeds to deposit what is left of them in the laps of the few surviving Harvard professors who live in Cambridge and pay taxes there. (There are only 130 of them, the teachers say.)