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Show DO YOU KUOW.... By George Jensen That to take care of its many trailer tourists, Florida public schools will take in children from other states on a flat "basis of $4 a term for grammar schools and $8 a term for high schools? That paavo Nurmi, famed national swimmer, won four Olympic races in one meet, the distances ranging from 1,500 meters to 10,000 meters'? That the longest and most difficult motorcar race on record was one from New York to Paris in 1908? Only two of the sic cars that started were able to complete the trip. The winner, driven by two Americans, made the journey of 13,400 miles--across the United States, Canada, Alaska, Siberia and Europe—in 112 days. That influenza, which has been traced back as far as 412 B.C., got its name from the Italian "influenz" and was originally supposed to be caused by supernatural forces or influences? That an average of one out of every twenty-five persons in the U.S. has at least had his brush with law enforcement ap-encies and in inclined toward criminality? That if the entire cost of crime could be eliminated for two years, the saving would pay off our entire national debt? That crime lives next door to you, often plays bridge with you, dances with you? That Cy Young won 508 major leagues ball earne in his life time career? That more railroad tracks were laid in the U.S. during the 1860's than were laid in any other decade, before or after? That Cocktail parties, which New York publicity men stage for visiting screen celebrities cost from $1200 to $1500? That Teddy Roosevelt once said, "A woman's name should appear in print but twice--when she is married and when she is buried." That a nutritional expert asserts that one hour's intense mental effort uses up no more energy than is contained in one-half of a salted peanut? |