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From there to the finish it was all Wallard and his Belanger Special, but not without some troubles. He drove the last 50 miles virtually without brakes, lost a shock absorber with twelve laps to go. But by the time he got the black & white mish flag, 40-year-old Lee Wallard, down to his last dollar four years ago, had won auto racing's biggest jackpot: $63,612 ($15,900 of it for leading in 159 of the 200 laps). His average speed: 126.244 m.p.h., nearly 5 m.p.h. faster than Bill Holland's 1949 record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Memorial Day Winner | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...will be no more than the final piece of irony in League history if the thwarting of the French wish for security succeeds in averting European war. At the moment no other outcome of the skir-mish at London seems likely. Less than two weeks ago Flandin journeyed across the Channel demanding nothing less than war on Germany to remove the troops from the Rhineland. Since that stormy day, crushed by elephantine proctocol and the reluctance of Britain to see beyond her nose, France has recognized the hopelessness of her position. The Neutral Zone plan was foisted upon French statesmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE BY WHIMSY | 3/24/1936 | See Source »

...back to the jungle. To show that she was quite capable of being returned to São Maharo, she undertook a lecture at a girls' school near Bristol. She told her story haltingly, miserably. Most of the girls sat back and drowsed at the ''mish's" speech; some ate candy; one, a hockey player named Barbara Gastell, paid attention. She knew the thin little old lady had "guts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Sao Maharo | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

Earned runs-Harvard 3. Two base hits-Reardon, Maloney. Three-base hit-Haughton. Beale. Bases on balls-by Paine: Bach 2; by Clancy: Beale, Haughton 2. Struck out-by Paine: Fleming, Clancy 2, Maloney, Kelly; by Clancy: Beale, Double plays-Stevenson, Dean and Haughton, Stevenson. Umpire-Mish Muray. Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEORGETOWN SHUT OUT. | 6/7/1897 | See Source »

Huntress, homes, Mish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, 8; Lehigh, 0. | 5/21/1888 | See Source »

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