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...manage to look half undressed-their blue jerseys and yellow pants ripped and torn. Crisler has a reason for that too: once he lost a game at Princeton when an opposing player grabbed his halfback by the sleeve and brought him down. Now Crisler uniforms his teams in flimsy zephyr cloth so rippable that Harmon once used up 20 jerseys in one season...
...quote Mr. Grady Edney in your Sept. 22 issue: "Jazz 'purists' remind me of a little group of prim spinsters careening along in Henry's first Ford, warmly assuring themselves that the Lincoln Zephyr gliding by is only a commercial corruption of the Original Thing...
...Downers Grove, Ill., the Burlington Railroad's Twin City Zephyr hit a twelve-ton grader which, seconds before, had fallen from a flat car on a westbound freight. The engine and all seven cars were derailed. Two cars smashed into the Downers Grove station. Two died; 36 were injured...
Died. Edward G. Budd, 75, founder-president of the $80,000,000 Budd Co., which made the first marketable all-steel automobile body in 1912, the first streamlined stainless steel train (Zephyr) in 1934; of a heart attack; in Germantown...
From deep in the central U.S. a puckish zephyr danced northward, trailing an unseasonable perfume of spring across the central and maritime provinces. Dandelions bloomed in Hamilton. Three tulips popped up outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...