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P: For driving 1,400,000 miles without accident or arrest Allen Bush Hill, 55, of Corpus Christi, Tex., was last week awarded a $150 Elgin watch and the title "World's Safest Truck Driver" by the American Trucking Associations.* During the 30 years it took him to establish the record, he averaged 46,600 miles per year, not counting nine months driving with the A. E. F.'s Fifth Engineers. More than a quarter of his mileage was covered in one G. M. C. truck. Driver Hill advised: "Give all the road you can, take all they'll give you."

P: When England's bespectacled, 40-year-old Captain George Edward Thomas Eyston raced his monstrous, 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce over Bonneville salt flats, Utah, at an unofficial speed of 309 m.p.h. (TIME, Nov. 8), it was expected that soon the 301 m.p.h. official world record would fall. Last week it did. Captain Eyston guided his 6-wheeled, 7-ton contraption over the same course to an official 311.42 m.p.h. Said he: "It was a hell of a run and I don't mean that profanely." During his second lap, on which he averaged 317 m.p.h. his goggles came loose and he had to adjust them while he drove with one hand.

P: After 18,000 hours in the air (an average of 2 1/2 hours a day for 20 years) during which he completed 2,400,000 miles of flying, United Air Lines veteran pilot, Captain Jack Knight, was retired to a ground job in Chicago as director of public education. Flyer Knight, now cadaverous, soulful-looking and 44, has more transport hours and miles to his record than any pilot in the U. S. P: One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet airplane that won 1934's England-Australia derby, took off from Croydon with Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green, 32-year-old London club hostess, financed by a champagne raffle, speed-bound for the Cape of Good Hope. The weary pair climbed out of their Comet at Capetown 45 hrs. 2 min. later, having traversed the 6,200 miles in 33 hrs. 24 min. less time than it took Amy Johnson last year. Said Flying Officer Clouston, a New Zealander by birth, to the delighted South Africans who crowded their landing field, "Thanks very much, but please don't damage the machine." In less than six days the flyers were back in London, with three records: London-Capetown, Capetown-London and roundtrip.

*In Cincinnati 32 truck drivers of the Indianapolis branch of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. and their guests last week celebrated winning the American Trucking Associations' award as the nation's safest fleet in its class at a dinner given by Kroger President Albert Morrill in the big grill room of the Cincinnati Club.

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