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...only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos, Calif, since publication of his best-selling Of Mice and Men* (167,000 copies) Mr. Steinbeck can well afford to abandon an erstwhile $25-a-month budget which he and his tall, brunette wife Carol supplemented by fishing, not for fun, from their own launch in Monterey...
Young Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin recently announced he would play the world premiere of Robert Schumann's lost violin concerto in St. Louis on Nov. 12 (TIME, Aug. 23). At his summer home in Los Gatos, Calif. Violinist Menuhin last week received the following cable from Germany: "German Government decided today world premiére performance Schumann Concerto can only take place at official anniversary Reichskulturkammer, Berlin, Nov. 13. All previously announced first performances elsewhere with piano accompaniment must be postponed...
...Gaffney, Thomas M. 19 165 5.7 Governor Dummer Danvers Goodman, Howard C. 17 175 6. Browne & Nichols Buffalo, N. Y. Graham, Evarts A. Jr. 16 178 6.1 Burroughs St. Louis, Mo. Hoague, Theodore Jr. 21 195 5.9 New Prep Weston Jones, H. Bradley 17 178 5.10 Milton Academy Los Angeles, Calif. Lacey, Thomas 18 172 5.9 Exeter Keene, N. H. McElwain, William H. 19 175 6.1 Noble & Greenough Brookline McLaughlin, Chester B. Jr. 18 167 5.10 Deerfield Bronxville, N. Y. McMillan, Donald B. 29 160 5.11 New Prep Brookline Mayersohn, Arnold L. 18 155 5.10 Albany Academy Albany...
...existing doodlebugs have a 75-inch wheelbase, as compared to the 105-inch average of standard racing cars, weigh from 600 to 1,000 lb. The original midget cars were crude affairs powered by motorcycle engines, later by outboard motors, cost about $400 to build. In 1934 Los Angeles' Frederick Offenhauser, longtime assistant of Harry Miller whose standard-size engines won most of the important U. S. auto races in the past decade, developed a special miniature motor. Most top-notch doodlebuggers now use Offenhauser motors, spend up to $5,000 for a racing car. A doodlebug generates anything...
Doodlebugs first appeared in the U. S. in Los Angeles in 1919 when a group of rich youngsters built midget cars to race around the Junior College Stadium, but midget racing as a recognized U. S. sport is less than five years old. In 1932 a field of eight midgets raced 20 laps around the football field of Los Angeles' Loyola High School. In 1934 Oilman Earl Gilmore built a stadium for midgets at a cost of $134,000. The Gilmore track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named...