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...drew a second-tier starting position, came from behind a scrambled crush of onrushing sulkies to get clear, then settled down to coast home. But it was not quite that simple. Approaching the wire, Driver Pownall looked back to see Axomite come thudding alongside. With a few deft, desperate flicks of his whip, Pownall shifted Titan into high and crossed the line half a length in front. Said Pownall later: "It was the first time I ever hit Titan. I hated to do it, but I had to. He's used to finishing two or three lengths ahead...
...lnvasion Practice. The bridge is adaptable to various kinds of traffic; a three-tier framework three panels wide can carry the heaviest tanks. A single span can be thrust 240 feet; by laying the ends on pontoons and joining sections, Bailey Bridges as long as 1,200 feet have been built...
...movie-handsome six-footer with a Tarzan build, George Putnam believes that the advent of television will be the flowering of his career. Although cinemoguls, he says, have told him that he could be "as big as anything in Hollywood," he insists that radio newscasting is his métier. And, he points out, it is not all voice: "Look at David Ross. Look at Milton Cross. They have beautiful voices, but there must be a driving force." This, and his "underlying note of friendly warmth," are what Putnam points to with pride when listeners write in, as they constantly...
...first of these was Au Fil de l'Epée (translated as The Philosophy of Command), which advocated individual initiative on the part of commanders instead of the traditional French system of fighting according to plan. Vers l'Armée de Métier (The Army of the Future) went even further in breaking with French tradition...
...every ball park, flags drooped at half-mast. In New York's Polo Grounds, Brooklyn's Ebbets Field and Detroit's Briggs Stadium-where New York ball clubs were playing-tier upon tier the fans stood bareheaded for a minute of silent tribute. In baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., mourners filed past a black-draped plaque. For the baseball world last week mourned 37-year-old Lou Gehrig, onetime Yankee first baseman, who Lad succumbed after two years to a rare, incurable disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...