Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yachtsmen, a youngster old enough to sit still is old enough to learn to sail. On Long Island Sound, cruising ground of thousands of summer sailors, a boy or girl of ten is old enough to race his own boat in "midget" class (under 15 years) events. Last week the best of the midgets raced for the championship of the Sound, and the silver-crusted Scovill Cup which is emblematic...
...that a midget really needs in the Sound's top event for young sailors is a boat of the 19-ft. Lightning class, good sense about sailing fundamentals and, for emergencies, the ability to swim. The 13 competitors at New Rochelle's Huguenot Yacht Club last week had a bit more than that. They were the individual champs of 13 yacht clubs and several of them had raced for the Scovill Cup before...
...Ohio, Dr. Clyde Hissong, state film censor, was fretting because televised wrestling is "devaluating all the concepts of fair play, obedience to laws, and respect for ordinary, universally accepted ways of behaving." What upset Dr. Hissong was not so much the recent introduction on TV of women wrestlers and midget wrestlers as the conduct of referees, who "issue warnings without penalty and in such a manner that contestants and observers conclude that it pays to break the rules...
...first heat, Rathman stuck with the pace for four laps, then gunned and jockeyed his big car into the lead, won by two lengths. In the first semifinal (15 laps) he had a little more trouble. No matter what he did, he was unable to catch a midget red Crosley labeled "½ Pint" which spun into the turns on two wheels, snaked through the bigger cars like a frightened jaywalker, beat Rathman's Cadillac by four lengths...
Thanks to devaluation of the pound, some of the smallest of the British cars were priced well under U.S. cars. Nuffield's two-passenger MG Midget was down to $1,850 delivered in New York, Austin's five-passenger sedan was tagged at $1,480 (its "hardtop" is higher), and Ford Motor Co. Ltd.'s small, four-passenger Anglia...