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Sport 26. Famed not only as a band leader, but as the defending champion in speedboat races this summer...
...Washington, Marilyn Krug, 20-year-old daughter of the Secretary of the Interior, enjoyed one of those girlish honors that are tailor-made for looking back on later. At a ball she was crowned Queen of the President's Cup Regatta (speedboat whoop-te-do) by the very careful Secretary of Agriculture...
With a bone-rattling roar, seven low-slung speedboats charged down Long Island's Jamaica Bay to start the first of three 30-mile heats in the International Gold Cup race. Most eyes were on 45-year-old Bandleader Guy Lombardo, the defending champion, half obscured by his helmet and Mae West as he hunched in the cockpit of his 600-h.p., red-gold-&mahogany Tempo VI. More than a famous name and expensive pressagentry made Lombardo the favorite. Other speedboat drivers had to admit that he was "a hot chauffeur" with a well-balanced boat that should have...
Grateful parishioners often send him presents-sometimes even new cars. Once, when given a Chris-Craft speedboat, he decided that it was too far above his station and sold it to buy an outboard, turning the extra money into church work...
...Winston Churchill was abed with a slight concussion and bruises; she got them on Lake Geneva when a speedboat she was riding made a quick turn and tossed her against the gunwale...