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...month later, with Designer Ted Jones at the wheel, Slo-Mo-Shun IV won motor-boating's famed Gold Cup. Last week on the Detroit River Slo-Mo-Shun took the last big prize within reach. It ran away with the international Harmsworth Trophy and, in the doing, pretty well established itself as the greatest speed boat ever built...
Horsepower. In Atlantic City, after complaining to police that a horse had kicked in a fender of his car, Motorist Robert C. Pearson was informed that all he could do was bring a civil suit for damages: "It's not a motor vehicle violation, because a horse is not operated by a gasoline-driven motor...
Died. Ransom Eli Olds, 86, who designed and built one of the first working automobiles (1886), founded the Olds Motor Works (taken over by General Motors in 1908) and the Reo Motor Car Co. (named from his three initials); in Lansing, Mich...
...Captain W. Stanley Moss, who had achieved the schoolboy dream of becoming secret agents. At their base in Cairo, they shared a villa and sampled the fleshpots of Egypt. It was in a nightclub that they first hatched the plot that was to land their party from a motor launch on the south coast of Crete...
After the snatch, the general (who quickly became resigned and quite amiable) was rnarched from cave to cave half the length of Crete, while the furious Germans fruitlessly finecombed the island. By the time a Royal Navy motor launch nosed in to a southwest beach and took off both captive and captors, Moss and Leigh-Fermor knew that they had achieved their principal aim-to astound the enemy and make him the laughingstock of the local population...