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...Bolts. Like all U.S. race drivers, Wilbur Shaw lived for the Memorial Day 500. "May 30 is Christmas, birthday and all the other nice days rolled into one," he wrote in his autobiography. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines, published last week (Coward-McCann; $5). "If you get into the Indianapolis 500, no matter what the outcome, you feel amply repaid for a year of work." For Shaw, the big race at the Speedway was worth more than a year-it was worth his whole life. From the day he first raced (and thoroughly wrecked) his own car-a homemade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Start Your Engines | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...Francisco Museum of Art was celebrating its 20th anniversary last week, marking a milestone as the country's second oldest museum (after Manhattan's) devoted solely to modern art. It was also paying warm tribute to the museum's scholarly director, Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley, 54. A woman who prefers tailored suits, sensible shoes, and wears her hair straight back in a bun, Director Morley, despite her retiring ways, has proved herself a dynamo in action. Her efforts have helped turn San Francisco into one of the nation's most enthusiastic strongholds of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Twenty Years of Grace | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...traffic situation in the Square is extremely bad," said McCann. "During rush hours buses pile up at the kiosk and create a serious problem. If it were eliminated, the traffic problems would be greatly eased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiosk Near College May Be Destroyed | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...bill to raze the M.T.A. kiosk in the Square has been filed in the state legislature by Senator Francis X. McCann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiosk Near College May Be Destroyed | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

Under the new plan buses would exchange passengers at the sidewalks, and subway entrances would be transferred to the walks bordering Massachusetts Ave. "The kiosk might then be turned into a grass plot," suggested McCann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kiosk Near College May Be Destroyed | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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