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...Detroit River came alive. Flippant rooster tails of spray arced high as six hopped-up speedboats zippered the straightaway and skittered hell-bent for trouble toward the first turn of the Gold Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes. The last heat boiled into a catfight between two river belles-Miss Thrijtway, a neat cream, orange and white number from Seattle, and Miss Pepsi, a Detroit brawler all tricked out in red, white and blue...
Ripples & Loops. Miss Thrijtway and her owner, Seattle Grocer Willard Rhodes, were out to settle an old score. Last year on Lake Washington, Rhodes figured he and Miss Thrijtway had the Gold Cup won, watched his driver, Bill Muncey, given a victory .dunking, only to learn later that Detroit's Gale V had taken first on corrected scoring. Now, Miss Thrijtway once more finished the final heat in front...
Seattle had its revenge. Rhodes and Muncey headed for the winner's circle. They got there just in time to hear Miss Thrijtway disqualified for hitting a buoy. Bellowing with rage, Muncey swarmed up the framework of the judges' stand. It was bad enough to hear that he had been done out of the Gold Cup again; it was unbearable to hear that the new winner was Detroit's Miss Pepsi...
...Miss Thrijtway, had demolished the buoy, they claimed. What's more, the television movies would prove it. Nonplused, the racing committee finally passed the buck to the American Power Boat Association, which may take up to 60 days to decide on a winner. By that time, the Gold Cup could be tarnished for fair. Roly-poly Horace Dodge, playboy heir to the Dodge car fortune, claims that he was illegally kept from qualifying for the cup in Dora My Sweetie. He has a court order requiring the race committee to show cause why the Gold Cup should...
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