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...slung racers. Some 175,000 craning fans, who brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...
...tire change cost Vukovich the lead, to Ruttman, in the 135th lap; 11 laps later, for the same reason, Ruttman lost it back to Vukovich. And so it went, in a nip & tuck race. With only 50 miles to go, Vukovich, setting new speed records all along the line, had a fairly substantial (31 seconds) lead, but he could see from information flagged from his pit that Ruttman was gaining...
...Battery. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. introduced a new "dry"-type storage battery which is guaranteed to last three months longer than ordinary batteries. Its acid is not added to the battery until it is sold, unlike the conventional battery, whose acid is put in at the factory, resulting in a steady discharge of cells before the customer begins to use it. Price: about $1.50 more than other batteries...
Just as the girls begin to tire of Williams, and the faculty of the girls, January and Bennington's Non-Resident term roll around...
...Mutual Broadcasting System's Board Chairman Thomas F. O'Neil, who is also a vice president of General Tire & Rubber Co., took over Mutual's presidency when Frank White, 52, resigned his $100,000-a-year job after a disagreement over a new contract. General Tire, owner of the Don Lee and Yankee networks, got majority stock control of Mutual when its networks merged last year with two Mutual stations in New York City...