displaying their wares.It was a happy group from the Speedway Motors Road Tour that posed for a picture at the tent on Friday.The Road Tour Reunion has become an annual event at the Nationals, bringing together folks from previous Road Tours.As the rods rolled out on Sunday after a great four days at the Nationals, we all knew we would be back again next August.In 1943, my father was the smartest boy in the world.

The previous year, Joel Kupperman had become a regular contestant on an NBC radio quiz program called Quiz Kids. Quiz Kids was a show where a panel of five children answered difficult questions, many sent in by listeners, and the three who scored the highest were invited back. My father, an adorable 6-year-old with a lisp who could do complicated math in his head, became a national sensation. He was rhapsodized about as a genius of the future, was quoted in newspapers and magazines pronouncing on everything from taxes to war. Female columnists joked about wanting to marry him. Poems were written in his honor, and he played himself in a movie. He was a household name.

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