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Just as the tide ebbed, the first invading wave of cars whisked along the rim of the sand. Loudspeakers blatted. Whistles skirled. The racket of racing engines woke the town. For the next two weeks the annual speed trials of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing turned Daytona Beach, Fla. into a motorized madhouse...
...teens-already a name on Broadway and in pictures, where she introduced such songs as Sing, You Sinners and If I Could Be with You-Lillian tried at first to find herself in love. David died. One night she went looking for herself in a bottle. Next morning she woke up in a hotel room with a soldier. To make matters worse, they were married. They stayed married until the novelty wore off, and then they just stayed drunk...
Dave Stephens' determination to run up track records drives even his wife into a state of healthful exhaustion. Until recently, he got up at 4:45 a.m. every weekday, tossed off a lemonade and studied an hour for a correspondence-course physical-education degree. Then he woke his wife Beverly, hustled her into running togs and took her off to Malvern Oval for some companionable jogging and wind sprints. After breakfast, Dave hit the books again before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman...
...world scoop. Otto John's story, according to Bonde-Henriksen, was that he had visited Wowo that night to "get some support for a widow of an executed anti-Nazi underground leader," and had been persuaded to go to his other flat in West Berlin ... "I woke up two days later in Karlshorst [Russian army headquarters]. A female doctor was sitting at my bedside and ... I got one injection and later on another, and I didn't feel clear in my mind . . . Right after the conference with the world press, I was flown to Moscow and was held...
...wife and an old-fashioned gold watch with Roman numerals and a heavy lid. For five years the watch has lain open on the desk while its owner listened to its ticking and wrote steadily, using the same aging desk pen and yellow lined pads. Says Herman Wouk (pronounced woke...