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Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
...Antonio, it was 94° in the shade. Lennart Strand, "Hägg's Rabbit," who had come over from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...
...touch the ground, he swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...
...miles from Belfast on the shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...
Government and the Communists. A Kuomintang party boss said the odds stood 49 for peace and 51 for war. A shade more optimistic, Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, rated...