Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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HARVARD CAMBRIDGE Hadden f.b. Low Watt r.w.3/4 Ritchie Cohen 1.w.3/4 Reed Constable c,3/4 Mallett Kennedy 2nd5/8 Downes Goft 1st5/8 Kemble Osgood h.b. Parsons Whitney Front Forward Steeds Clowes Front Forward Spencer Knapp Front Forward Heath Scott 2nd Row Jerwood Fisher 2nd Row Newton-Thompson Downes 2nd Row Folker Gephart 2nd Row Bateman-Champain Miller 3rd Row Williams...
...were painted signs proclaiming it a dual-control driver-training car. A. Mr. Yordan, from the Bureau for Street Traffic Reseach, stuck his head out from one of the driving sides--it didn't seem to matter which one--and invited the Vagabond to come for a ride to Newton High School where juvenile drivers were to be given the latest pointers on how to play wrinkle-fender. "Four boys," said Mr. Yordan, "and four girls make up my two classes." Four girls, huh? Without further ado, the Vagabond inhaled vigorously and stepped into...
...they zipped toward Newton, he eyed the road nervously. Lot of gadgets in this car, must be complicated to handle. Look out! A car in front of them had stopped abruptly. Instinctively he pressed his feet hard on the floorboards and to his and Mr. Yordan's surprise, the Pontiac jerked to a stop. "Funny," mused Mr. Yordan, "I thought I stepped on the gas to go around him." Then he laughed and pointed to the Vagabond's hoofs on the floorboards. "Dual controls," he said softly. "Don't freeze on them again." The Vagabond looked down, and sure enough...
...clutch quite stole the show. On the way back to Cambridge after the ordeal, Mr. Yordan spouted elements of safe driving and made a pronounced full stop at every "stop" street, which touched the Vagabond's conscience. He resolved to reform. The Bureau for Street Traffic Research and the Newton girls had shown him the light...
Ushers were Dean Leighton. Francis Parkman '18, Bradley Dewey '07, Theodore F. M. Newton, John Briscoe, John Dean '34, Gale Noyes, Stephen Stackpole '33, Chauncey Stillman '80, Frederick G. White '20, Robert J. Allen, Vernon Monroe, Robert Saltonstall, Jr. '88, and William Barry Wood...