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...final hours of the 55th International Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week it was necessary to watch only two of the ten teams whirling around the pine-board saucer. They were the red-jerseyed team of Peden & Letourner, and the red-white-&blue clad Hill & Debaets...
Chained up for five years outside the Hunter's Inn on Montauk Highway near Brookhaven, L. I. have been two black bears called Cup and Saucer. Their master, Gardner Murdock, is a grizzled oldtimer, gruff but kindly, locally famed as a duck-shooters' guide on Great South...
...last week eleven-year-old Grant Taylor Jr. had saved some apples from his school lunch. Going by the Hunter's Inn he went into the yard and tossed an apple to Saucer, the she bear. He tossed another to Cup. In hunger or jealousy, Saucer lunged to get Cup's apple too. Her worn chain snapped...
...five-year-old black bear far outweighs and can easily outrun an eleven-year-old boy. Grant Taylor's schoolmate fled but he, nearest the charging animal, became confused. He bumped into a nearby raccoon cage, and Saucer was on him, hugging him around the neck, clawing and biting at his shrieking face. Passing motorists stopped to watch the frightful scuffle which sent dead leaves flying in the autumn wind. But they did not get out of their cars. A neighbor with a shotgun was too late to do anything but kill Saucer, and Cup too. Little Grant Taylor...
...chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated a stop watch. Still falling, at 144 m.p.h., he took time to dry his goggles. As his body dropped into denser atmosphere, its speed was slowed to about 120 m.p.h. Not until he was down to 3,500 ft. did Jumper Tranum yank open...