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Leadoff runner Ed Grutzner had again built up a short lead that John Packard was able to hold. Then Dartmouth's fastest quarter-miler, Pete McCreary, ran away from Tom McGrath on the third leg. In passing, McCreary cut in too close to McGrath, and the latter ran with arms wide to hold the Green runner off. But on the turn McGrath's right arm hit McCreary, and a judge called a foul at that point...
Most important change was a new 180-horsepower engine, the most powerful automobile engine on the road, which Chrysler spent five years developing. (Next most powerful: Cadillac and Packard.) Chrysler described its new V-8 "FirePower" engine as "revolutionary"-and with reason. Though it has 33% more horsepower, the engine weighs 8% less than Chrysler's old eight-in-line engine. A high-compression engine (7.5 to 1), the Fire-Power nevertheless operates efficiently, and at a 10% saving, on regular grades...
From latest reports, the four Ed Grutzner, John Packard, Tom McGrath, and Ronnie Berman--are scheduled to compete against the same three Ivy League opponents they defeated in the Knights of Columbus meet. In the K. of C. relays, a Seton Hall quartet was clocked in 3:22.2, bettering an earlier Fordham time of 3:22.6. Harvard finished in 3:26.4 (later tied by the Fordham freshmen...
...seven mile relays the Crimson time--3:26.4--was third to that of seton Hall and Fordham. Ed Grutzner, a runner very close to Berman in ability, built up a short lead on the first leg and passed the baton to John Packard and tom McGrath. The advantage that Berman had to make up came when Dartmouth's Pete McCreary blased through his third leg and took the led from McGrath...
...guests at a presidential party by taking a hefty slug when the others were raising their glasses in a toast. He addressed a public meeting with a cigarette dangling from his nether lip. Not to be outdone by U.S. Ambassador H. Merle Cochran, who had a shiny blue 1950 Packard, Uncle Barhen acquired a shiny red 19 50 Packard...