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...inaugural address bareheaded in the rain, recalls that the tradition of baring the head has long been a hazard to men in public life. F.D.R. was laid low for several days following his election because he held his hat in salute to the crowds during most of the motor trip down from Hyde Park. In 1941 he was again incapacitated by one of his few illnesses after he stood for an hour bareheaded during Armistice Day ceremonies. King George V contracted his final illness by standing hatless in the rain before England's War Memorial...
...prime favorites for the million-franc prize money and the Prince Ranier III of Monaco Cup. But in the next test-a series of starts, stops and reverses over a 250-meter course-the Sunbeam-Talbot came a cropper. "There was a small knock in the motor," said Fitch ruefully. "We lost two seconds." By that slim margin, Fitch lost his chance to become the first U.S. winner of the race. The winner: Dutch Journalist and Veteran Competitor Maurice Gatsonides, 41, driving an English Ford Zephyr. Unfazed, Fitch grinned: "I'll be back next year...
...spent 54 days (most of them in an iron lung) in the Troy hospital, then 14 months at the Mary MacArthur Center in Massachusetts, where he was "weaned" from the lung and introduced to a rocking bed. This device, with an adjustable top like a hospital bed, has a motor which makes it rock in teetertotter style. As the bed head rises, the weight of the abdominal organs pulls down the patient's diaphragm. This expands his chest cavity, which his paralyzed muscles can no longer do, and pulls air into the lungs. When the foot...
...late Motor Pioneer R. E. Olds (Oldsmobile...
...hand "twist-grip" handle for steering and speed control on almost all new models of outboard motors, some of which reverse the motor with a twist of the wrist...