Word: veteran
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Died. Wilbur Shaw, 51, president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, three-time winner of the 500-mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race; in a private-plane crash; at Peterson, Ind. Born near Indianapolis, Racer Shaw learned his trade on dirt tracks, surprised veteran drivers by finishing fourth in his first Indianapolis race, when he was 25. Besides his three Indianapolis firsts (1937, 1939, 1940), he also got three seconds, a fourth and a seventh in his 15 years of big-time racing. Legend had it that he was indestructible. He suffered a skull fracture, broken ribs and smashed vertebrae...
LEOPARDS AND LILIES, by Alfred Duggan (278 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), finds a veteran historical novelist taking the field for the English against France in the time of bad King John. Lady Margaret fitzGerold, a highborn widow, is forced into an unwelcome marriage with Sir Falkes de Brealte, a Norman bastard and the best crossbowman in all England. Margaret, a practical woman of 14, runs Falkes's castle, appreciates his long absences from home, and is only mildly annoyed when he scolds her for lowering the drawbridge too slowly. Lady Margaret survives the harrowing siege of Bedford...
...battle-ax of the women's movement, Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhull. "The Woodhull," as the papers called her, was a freeloving fortuneteller and spiritualist who, according to Commodore Vanderbilt, furnished him with valued market tips; on the platform she would point to her "brevet husband," a Civil War veteran named Colonel Blood, and yelp: "There stands my lover, but when I cease to love him, I shall leave him." When The Woodhull was attacked for living a libertine life, she coldly countered by charging in print, naming all names, that the country's No. 1 preacher...
Hockey coach Cooney Weiland will hold the season's first practice for 40 varsity candidates this afternoon at the Boston Garden. Weiland's main problem will be finding defensemen, since senior Ned Almy is the only returning blue-line veteran...
Reacting particularly fast to Princeton's numerous, nameless variations were defensive halfbacks Bob Cowles and Tony Gianelly. The veteran Cowles played the same vicious ball he has played for three years, while Gianelly made two key pass interceptions and tackled harder than he has all season. In continuing to progress with each game, the big sophomore picked up one-third of the team's rushing total, including several crucial first downs...