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Counter-Blow. Dapper Guy Warner Vaughan, ex-automobile racer who heads giant Curtiss-Wright, answered Truman's attacks: "The P-40 has been continuously modernized, [has] shot down from three to 20 enemy planes for every P-40 lost. . . . The company emphatically denies that Wright has at any time sold products known to the company to have contained defective or substandard parts...
...Tail because his blond tail nearly swept the ground and reminded oldtimers of the hair-tonic ads of the Seven Sutherland Sisters. Mr. Long Tail set no world's records like Big Red (Man o' War) or the late great Ekky (Equipoise). But he was a dramatic racer, a notorious latefoot who came from behind, his long tail streaming, to cut down rival after rival...
...past ten years she has been training horses on her own. Washingtonian T. T. Mott, whose string she now handles, refuses to buy a racer without her O.K. Last summer Horse Owner James V. Stewart urged Mr. Mott to buy a hand some young jumper. Judy demanded a trial run around the local Laurel course. She mounted, skimmed around the course until the last fence, where the horse crashed to the turf, head first. When an ambulance reached her, Judy was uncon scious. Coming to, she muttered: "Mr. Stewart, we don't want to buy your horse...
...Gregory Rice, a pony-sized runner with a Percheron kick, is the fastest distance racer ever developed in the U.S. Despite a triple hernia that has kept him out of the services, he has won 57 consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
Seventh child of an Italian carpenter, Basso Pinza was born in Rome in 1892. His only youthful distinction was as a middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...