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April 6, 1957

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a reporter at large

REAL BEASTS.

J. M. Flagler

REPORTER AT LARGE about a drag-racing meet at the Westhampton Raceway, in Speonk, L.I., conducted by the Long Island Hot Rod Ass'n. "Hot-rodder" is the…