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...griddle-flat stretch of Florida coast just south of Daytona Beach one day last week, the air was split by the thunder of 111 motorcycles revving up at once. A white flag waved, and four ranks of cyclists in crash helmets and goggles blasted off along the rock-hard sand. Ahead lay 48 laps of speed work on a 4.2-mile course-and a chance at the National Motorcycle Championship...
Hollywood noticed Jules in 1938, changed his name to John Garfield, and launched him on a type-cast screen career of playing himself-the narrow-eyed, rock-hard underdog. In his first movie, one of his lines came easily: "It stinks." He put a jarring realism into his tough-guy roles -in such movies as They Made Me a Criminal, He Ran All the Way, Tortilla Flat. The critics cheered him, and Hollywood's pinkos took him in tow. Soon, Garfield was lending his name to all sorts of Communist-front crusades...
...Korea, war waited through the week while Communists tried to find a "maybe" between a rock-hard U.S. demand...
...situation seemed to have the makings of a proxy fight. But even if one developed, there was no assurance that imperious Sewell Avery would be toppled. Aside from his record at turning profits, there was his rock-hard stubbornness. "I'll be here," Avery once told an associate, "until I'm six feet under...
Stocks of clothing are very low, will probably be completely sold out by the time better quality goods make their long-awaited appearance. Furniture departments had only a minimum stock of rock-hard springless chairs, couches and beds. One Detroit store ruthlessly cleaned out its entire line of cardboard toys, burned them as trash...