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Duren was the hard-throwing speedster of early season when he first replaced Ford in the eighth. But the Braves kept after him and finally got to him in the 10th...
...smart money studied the figures and played Calumet Farm's Tim Tarn or Jewel's Reward, the Maine Chance speedster. But reading race charts is a cold-blooded business. Sentimentalists liked Silky, the brawny, unkempt boy from the West; hunch players loved him for his heart-stopping habit of hanging back, far off the pace, and coming on in the final seconds to overhaul horses in a wild scramble up the stretch...
...famed Ford model T went 19 years without a basic body change. For the Hollywood movie star or Wall Street tycoon who wanted something special, there was the custom-body shop. But even Designer Gordon Buehrig, who styled three classic U.S. cars-the Duesenberg J, the boat-tailed Auburn Speedster, the Cord 810-worked almost unnoticed. "The job was just a job," says Buehrig, today a Ford engineer. "We worked in a corner of the plant, and none of us thought we were working on a classic...
Bill of Particulars. In Tucson. Ariz., police traveling 65 to 100 mph were outdistanced but finally caught Speedster Delos Kebler Knox Jr., by trapping him in a roadblock, promptly impounded his ex-1948 Ford on the ground that it had 1) no body, 2) no windshield, 3) no floor boards, 4) steering wheel sawed in half...
Despite several outstanding performances by the Crimson, it was all Cornell. Bo Roberson, the football speedster, led the Big Red with two victories, winning the 220 low hurdles and the unorthodox 95-yard dash. (The 100 yard dash course had been measured after Roberson had registered a sterling 0:09.4 and found five yards too short...