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...Foyt and pulled into the pits for a tire change. "There was too much canvas showing," he said philosophically. "Being second is better than being dead." Winner Foyt flashed across the finish line 9 sec. in front. The lucky veteran, who drove his first racing car (an 18-m.p.h. midget) when he was but three years old, had averaged 139.130 m.p.h. to set a new record and earn the winner's check of $117,975-richest of any Memorial Day drive...
...Irish talk, the parochial Irish viewpoint that every historical event can be reduced to some Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the fanciful delight in "Characters"-little Philsy Kerrigan, who once saved up a trunkful of doughnuts; Danny McGhee, who always slept in a maple tree; the midget policeman who caught the dwarf bandit...
Kovacs plans to do three more midget spectaculars to substitute now and then for the Silents, Please program that he, in the idiom of the medium, hosts. The odds are that they will be the only shows on the air whose credits lists will flash the appealing message; SEE THE GIANT CLAMS EAT THE FRIENDLY NATIVES...
...just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson...
...Canadian schools don't have teams as we do; interscholastic athletics are not stressed. Instead, there are town teams and local hockey programs sponsored by civic-minded groups. Kids from the ages of eight to 13 play in the city park leagues; players up to age 16 play midget hockey; those up to age 18 play juvenile hockey; and those up to age 20 play Junior A. After that, players enter Senior Amateur, intermediate, or professional leagues, or go to college...