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...pretty 21-year-old girl who claims to be a cousin of Herbert Hoover. She, Elizabeth Hoover of Kansas City, with her tall, blond Swedish partner, Wes Aronson of Chicago, was last week leading the Chicago Roller Derby by one lap. Roller Derbies are patterned roughly after six-day bicycle races. Contestants, male & female, sleep in full view of the spectators and each other on cots in the centre of the rink. They eat six meals and take three urine tests a day to satisfy health officials that they are not too exhausted. Their skates, provided free, have maple wheels...
These remarks by Belgian Gerard Debaets explained why 100,000 customers trudged into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week to witness the 59th International Six-Day Bicycle Race. Not to be mesmerized by the whirring tires, not to cheer for representatives of their own race did goggle-eyed addicts stare hour after hour, night & day at the pine-board saucer. It was, for most of them, the hope of being startled by the impact of wheels, the slither of tangled bodies on the track...
...dissatisfied with his services." Newsman Watson countercharged that AP had violated the Labor Act by firing him because he was a vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, newshawks' fledgling union with which AP had just refused to bargain concerning its shift from a five-day to a six-day week...
...question of affiliation will be brought up again at the Guild's next annual convention. Meanwhile the organization was preparing to bargain collectively with the Associated Press, which put its New York office back on a six-day week...
Since the Fatherland's teachers are stuck so deep in the rut of a six-day teaching week, Minister Rust finally made a concession to German pedagogics. Though children will sit under their regular instructors only five days in each calendar week, their lessons will be assigned on a complicated basis of six days, the six-day study week beginning on a different day of each calendar week. Only in Germany could such a system be installed for the reason given by Dr. Rust: greater efficiency...