Sport: Spindizzies

A New York box salesman, a Chicago doctor, a United Air Lines pilot, a Texas polo player, 46 other assorted U. S. citizens gathered in Los Angeles last week to ply their common sport. They were all "spindizzies." Three years ago spindizzy was unknown to the U. S. vernacular. Then Los Angeles' Dooling brothers (Tom, Russ and Hank), who were model-airplane buffs, began to experiment with model autos. They built a miniature automobile, not much larger than a milk bottle, to fit over one of their tiny, ΒΌ-h.p. internal-combustion airplane engines, tied one end...

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