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...dealers in Indidnapolis concocted a stunt which would both emphasize safety and draw attention to themselves. They announced they would burn $75,000 worth of used cars at the fair grounds because the roads would be safer without them. At 8 p. m. Thursday evening last week the huge pile of jalopies was touched off while firemen and some 25,000 others looked on. It made a magnificent bonfire, but its value as a publicity stunt was slightly vitiated by a somewhat larger blaze half an hour earlier at Lakehurst...
What the course lacks most is unity. Each instructor charges at his favorite rate of speed into the pile of books to be covered, and each stresses what seems to him to be important. The result is that students in different sections often cover different amounts of work and always get different slants on the subject. It is unfortunate that the reactions of the students vary as much as they do, depending on their luck in instructors and personnel of sections...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
...story) and Gottfried work as mechanics; all share and share alike. But repair jobs are few, and it is always a question how long they can keep going. Otto's prize possession is a rattletrap car they call Karl, which looks only fit for the junk-pile but is actually a tenderly groomed greyhound of the road. Besides drinking, their favorite sport is to cruise along in Karl till they find a swank car, then lure it into a race...
...tight struggle, neither team ever being more than one run ahead. Harvard had a hard time making anything from the offerings of Stehnach, who held them to 4 hits through the eighth, but the Cornell outfielders were playing tag with the ball in a high wind and helped pile up a total of six errors to give the Mitchellmen 4 unearned runs...