In Akron, Ohio, last week Radio Announcer Graham McNamee received nothing worse than a bad bump on the head when a soap box mounted on wheels and driven by one Paul C. Brown of Oklahoma City coasted down a 1,181-ft. hill and knocked him and his assistant off their feet, near the finish line of the All-American Soap Box Derby which they were trying to broadcast. At the crash, timid Mrs. Betty Searles fainted. After it, daring Maurice E. Bates of Anderson, Ind. won the Soap Box Derby and a four-year college scholarship offered...
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