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...Ewell will have Brown's brilliant Ken Clapp, Pitt's Harold Stickell, Penn's Palmer Hughes, and Yale's Bob Owen in the 100. In the 220, Clapp is the defending champion. Pitt's Frank Ohl and Colgate's Al Diebolt, another sensational Sophomore, will challenge the Penn State speedster...
...used as fighter escorts on long-range reconnaissance or bombing missions, and neither Britain nor France has brought out an escort fighter like the U. S.'s new twin-engine, high-speed, long-range Lockheed P-38. Germany has: the cannon-carrying Messerschmitt Me. 110, a twin-engine speedster that will be used to keep the Spitfires and Hurricanes, the French Moranes and American Curtisses off the backs of busy bombers. Last week in the House of Commons, when Laborite Hugh Dalton observed that Britain had no counterpart of the Me. no, there was no one there to contradict...
...feature races of the Navy encounter will be the 50 and 100 yard dashes where George Wiley, Middie Sophomore speedster, will meet an up-and-coming Jim Curwon, Lonnie Stowell, or Dave Stearns. Captain Rick Cutler should not have much trouble in scoring a double in the 220 and 440, but Jim Conger may push Frannie Powers a bit in both events...
Sued for Divorce. Lady Dorothy Whittall Campbell, by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell, now heading a British motorcycle militia unit (TIME, Sept. 25); in London...
After pocketing the $16,000 first-prize money, Speedster Turner, who has been chasing pylons for eleven years, announced that the sun had set on his giddy racing career. "I can't keep stretching my luck," he drawled. With a decade's earnings of $65,000 in prize money and many times that amount 'for testimonials, magazine articles, movie contracts and other perquisites that fall to a U. S. champion, Speedster Turner plans to cash in on his fame by starting a flying school...