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Jalopies travel in second gear all the way because there is no pickup in third. They hit 45 to 50 miles an hour on a quarter mile tar track. Each driver has his own favorite technique, depending on his ability...
Other upsets last week: ¶Unpredictable Louisiana State knocked the props from under North Carolina and Halfback Choo Choo Charlie Justice, 13-7, for the Tar Heels' first regular-season setback in 22 games. ¶Underdog Southern Methodist, minus the services of Quarterback Doak Walker (ill with influenza), came from behind to beat undefeated Kentucky...
...discontinuing trolley traffic between Central Square and Harvard Square, City Engineer Edgar Davis and state engineers decided that any attempt to salvage the track would be wasted effort. Davis explains that the roadbed is fortunately low along Massachusetts Avenue, and for that reason two and one-half inches of tar can be applied directly on top of the track. Rather than harming the paving job, the track, instead, adds strength to the roadbed. Work will continue today and probably tomorrow, with traffic limited on Plympton, Dunster, Holyoke, and Lindon streets, and Massachusetts Avenue during most of the remaining construction...
...since Edward VIII gave up his throne for Wally Simpson had society anywhere suffered a comparable constitutional crisis. All week long, under giant camelthorn trees at Serowe, thatched-hut capital of the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland in South Africa, the tar-black chieftains of the Bamangwato tribe pondered and palavered...
They stumbled through alleys and courts littered with tin cans, gritty with cinders and broken glass, past tar-paper shacks and sagging frame and brick houses where rents ranged from $12 to $30 a month. They ducked under clothes drying on lines strung across the alleys. A policeman waved a hand at the rows of backyard privies: "We found a man frozen to death in one of these toilets last winter," he told them casually...