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...group is to race in the Massachusetts State Championships on the "Thunderbolt" ski trail at Mt. Greylock for downhill practice. It will be led by Finn Ferner who was barred from the team competing at the Dartmouth Carnival last Friday because his rating with the University was considered that of a graduate student...
...Alfred Eipper, were victorious over Dartmouth, Yale, Amherst, Middlebury, and Williams ski teams at the Williams carnival Saturday and Sunday. This was the first major ski win within the memory of anyone now in college. Winship finished third and Ames fourth in the downhill, which was held on the Thunderbolt Trail under icy conditions. The jumping was the last event held on the 35 mete hill, where the Crimson team made a perfect record, thus bringing their total score to 465.15 and edging out the Dartmouth second team by 21 points...
Wagner: Overture, Venusberg Music and Prelude to Act 3 from "Tannhauser" (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 10 sides). Stokowski at his thunderbolt-hurling best. The Philadelphians noodle magnificently...
...only 24 hours did King Cobb reign. Next morning, Captain Eyston took his second turn. With his Thunderbolt revamped (tail fin removed and square nose streamlined) he regained his crown with a speed of 357 m.p.h., only 83 m.p.h. less than the fastest man has flown. He reached a velocity of 525 feet a second (the muzzle velocity of a high calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists...
...Named after its British designer, Reid Railton, who also designed Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird, first car ever to travel 300 m.p.h. and holder of the world's record before Captain Eyston's Thunderbolt. Last week Sir Malcolm broke his own world's record for speed on water by driving his motorboat Bluebird 130 m.p.h. on Lake Hallwil, Switzerland...