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...three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
...second year in a row, the Princeton lightweights won the Eastern title and will therefore be the United States' representative at the Henley Regatta. Their margin of victory on Saturday at the Sprints was a scant two seats over an onrushing Crimson boat...
...something," she told them time and again in the McCarthy farm home near Appleton, Wis. Last week, in the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., her fifth-born, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, overtaken by cirrhosis of the liver, received the last rites of his Roman Catholic faith and a scant 62 minutes later died at 48. It was clear from the headlines that rang around the world that Joe McCarthy had indeed done something...
...Landau nearly caught Fisk, even though he stumbled after clearing the last hurdle he fell across the finish line a scant two steps behind his Eli rival, but ahead of Yale's Keith Moore, who had upset him in the indoor Heps...
...race was, "No matter how you look at it, Princeton is the crew to beat." This year's statistics, which is all the varsity has to go on, would certainly seem to bear him out. The Tigers have had two races; in the first, they lost by a scant foot to a strong Navy eight. Last week they beat Penn, another of the better crews in the East...