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Beach plodded to the Pru in 3:02.00 to cop 169th place, and Fallows, appearing in his first Marathon, turned in a 3:15.18 performance. His finished position was known at presstime only by the unapproachable Jock Semple...

Author: By Benito Playa, | Title: Crimson Runners Destroy Yalie Clowns in Marathon | 4/22/1969 | See Source »

Normally the opening of London's Royal Academy show in venerable Burlington House is the opening gun of London's social season, one of the great events of the year. But not in Coronation Year. The 169th Royal Academy exhibition has been officially open for a month, yet not until last week did attendance figures begin to approach normal. Having shaken the Coronation confetti out of their hair, the public trooped in to see what, after sitting for .weeks in solemn judgment, the Academy's hanging committee had chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: British Academy | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...manager's car the two men sped through East 133rd Street to St. Ann's Avenue, turned north, and continued un challenged, stared at by dwellers of the shabby neighborhood. At 149th Street they abandoned the car, changed to a taxicab, turned into Boston Post Road. At 169th Street a motorcycle policeman opened fire on them. He fell mortally wounded. A fireman picked up the police man's revolver. He, too, was shot down. Another fireman, out driving with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, came into range. All were wounded, the child fatally. Bul lets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Street Scene | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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