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...Maryland's Andrews Air Force Base, Road Racer Bill Spear, in a 4.5-liter Ferrari, won the President's Cup race at a roaring 81.85-m.p.h. average. Some 60,-ooo turned out for the biggest series of sports-car races (178 entries) ever held in the U.S. Winner Spear's reward: a two-foot silver bowl, presented to him in person by President Eisenhower. ¶In St. Louis, the Cardinals' Rightfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial had himself quite a day at the plate in the course of a doubleheader with the New York Giants: five walloping...
...Elis, Heptagonal and IC4A indoor champions, were surprised in almost every event Saturday, but the javelin toss was the one which completely crushed them. Pete Morrison, Carl Goldman, and Ed Hurley all threw the spear further than any Eli, Morrison winning with a toss of 164-feet-one half inch, the longest. Yale was favored to take both first and second in the event...
...such a grand theme, and the resulting decorations reminded a modern critic of illustrations from an old edition of Bulfinch's Mythology. With all the subtle reserve of Victorian design, one medallion contains a Roman corselet, a sword and a helmet, shields, sprays of laurel leaves, Roman faces, spear heads, part of a fortress, and, topping all, an American eagle bearing a thunderbolt...
...individual husks. Some cobs showed tooth marks; they had apparently been eaten as modern people eat sweet corn. MacNeish estimates that agriculture provided about 4% of the food at this period (4,000 years ago). The rest were wild plants and animals, which were hunted with the atlatl or spear-throwing stick...
...Shaft & Spear. With that much evidence in hand. Book Dealer Keen started off on another quest: How might Shakespeare have come into possession of the Chronicle? The volume did bear one owner's name, Richard Newport, and a date, April 6, 1565. But when Keen investigated the signature, he found that it belonged to a Sir Richard Newport who had lived in Shropshire, some distance from Stratford. Nevertheless, Newport's family tree revealed some promising leads. He was related to a family named Fitton (Mary Fitton was the "Dark Lady" of the Sonnets), which in turn was related...