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Ward Ellsworth Swarthout is a stocky little (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) motor bug. As a peacetime Army pilot in the '20s, he flew airplanes for a while, but gave them up as "too dangerous." Swarthout found a substitute in something closer to the ground by turning auto racer in big (270 cu. in. cylinder displacement), standard racing cars, then gave them up for earth-hugging midget (up to 145 cu. in.) racing. Last week, at Brawley, Calif., 50-year-old Ward Swarthout, now a grandfather, was happily racing just a couple of inches off the ground...
...micros are the latest fad in auto racing, an ever-growing sport that drew an estimated 23 million spectators last year to all types of competition. Four years ago, one of the first micros, a Yuma, Ariz, job, caught the eye of old Racer Swarthout, who runs his own auto-repair shop at El Centro, Calif. Swarthout promptly built the first one in the Imperial Valley. Since then, micro-midget racing has spread as far east as Pennsylvania. Reason for the popularity of the micros: they can be built for as little...
...Colonel Philip DeWitt Ginder, 46, commander of the U.S. 6th Regiment in Berlin, whom she met at a cocktail party on a visit there two months ago; both for the second time (her first husband was Ward Morehouse, Manhattan drama columnist); in Danbury, Conn. Matron of honor: Neighbor Gladys Swarthout...
American Inventory (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC-TV), the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's survey of U.S. economic and social problems, opened with an impressive cast -Singer Gladys Swarthout, General Motors' Charles F. Kettering, Judge Samuel Leibowitz, Baseball's Jackie Robinson, ex-Budapest-Prisoner Robert Vogeler-none of whom seemed at ease with a pompous script...
...Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua, N.Y.: instrumental and vocal school; Christopher Lynch, Gladys Swarthout, soloists; Franco Autori conducting...