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...more that day, and had beaten by long margin a field of 62 other road-pounders. He was winning the cruelest of all races, wherein strong heart and mickle courage are the fundamental prerequisites -the Marathon. And trailing behind the winner Clarence De Mar jogged blister-footed Olympic champion Albin Stenroos, Finn, who led De Mar by two places in the 1924 competitions- on that terrifically hot day the racers wilted like flies along the roadside. And behind him thumped other runners who thought De Mar was a has-been. The typesetter from Melrose, Mass., began his marathonic career...
...come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through...
...whole the exhibit was marked by restraint, conservatism -very little cubism, very little of the "very modern" effects. Two instructors in the Art Institute covered two of the chief prizes. Albin Polasek, sculptor, took the Logan medal and $1,500 for his statue Unfettered quite a different piece of work from his statue of "A Fat Lady Hailing a Bus" butt of wits and columnists, which stands outside the museum and was made to order of a park board. Leopold Seyfert with a self portrait took another medal and $1,000. There were two posthumous Sargents, a goodly number...
Yesterday afternoon the class of 1869, at exercises held in Widener Library, presented to the University a bust of their classmate, Francis Davis Millet, a prominent mural artist and newspaper correspondent, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster. The bust, a bronze by Mr. Albin Polisek of Chicago, a friend of Mr. Millet, was executed in Rome a few days before the latter's death. It has been placed on a pedestal in the corridor leading to the general reading room...
...Albin Leal Richards...