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...Wood Jr., 19-year-old son of the famed U. S. speedboat racer who has held the Harmsworth Trophy since 1920: the national outboard motorboat championship for amateurs (Class A and Class B); on the muddy James River; at Richmond...
...which just nosed out Earl Ortman's Keith Rider at an average of 256.9 m.p.h. This was seven miles slower than Michel Detroyat's world record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize in the Greve Trophy race. Grinned he: "I just gunned her for all she could...
Died. Ernest von Delius, German auto racer who last month placed fourth in the Vanderbilt Cup race at Westbury, L. I.; of injuries after an accident in a race at Nurnberg; in Bonn, Germany...
Before he died he had given his son Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...
...exaggeration is that the office girls are fined if they go to the lavatory more often than once in the morning, once after lunch. Coryell service station men are encouraged to be proud of their bright orange uniforms and to swarm over each car as if it were a racer rolling into the pits. They are also under strict instructions "never to engage a lady in conversation only as she leads." During the two months that the Coryell offices will remain in Colorado Springs, each staff member will receive $50 extra pay "for their good times." But the office vacation...