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Stock car racing is a slam-bang sport with its own special sound effects-screeching tires, crumpling fenders and ten-car smashups. It requires nerve and verve for a driver to compete with any success. Tops in this careening career is a slim, wiry young (28) man named Julius Timothy Flock of Hapeville, Ga. A onetime auto salesman, "Tim" Flock, who comes from a family of racing drivers, discovered six years ago that racing a car was more profitable than selling one. His estimated income this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Daredevil Driver | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...named Smith top back for "simply overpowering Harvard in an awesome display of slam-bang football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers' Homer Smith Earns Ap Plaudits For Crimson Game | 11/13/1952 | See Source »

...slam bangin' bruiser--for you broke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR JOE McCARTHY | 9/30/1952 | See Source »

...Scorpion on a collision course with the enemy, and when within range, automatically fire its rockets. The new interceptor, which the" Air Force expects to be in the first line of defense against atomic attack, has already earned an admiring nickname from Northrop's workers: the "Grand Slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Grand Slam | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Last week, the Grand Slam gave Northrop's President John K. (Jack) Northrop a big pot in what had long looked like a losing game. To Northrop Aircraft, which had more than once lost heavily on postwar wrong guesses, the Air Force was readying $154 million in contracts for the new plane, which would bring Northrop's total backlog to $389 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Grand Slam | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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