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...35th annual Western Conference meet last week saw the most amazing individual performance in the history of U.S. track & field sports. Slender, coffee-colored Jesse Owens, 21-year-old Ohio State Sophomore, tied one world's record, broke three, and emerged from the meet indisputably the ablest all-around track athlete currently functioning in the U.S. His records: 20.3 sec. for the 220-yd. dash (old record: 20.6 sec.); 22.6 sec. for the 220-yd. low hurdles (old record: 23 sec.); 26 ft., 8¼ in. for the broad jump (old record...
Katherine Rawls is 17, 107 lb., with a boyish face, short kinky hair, the physique of a nervous minnow. Brought up in Miami, she was a prodigy at 7, a national champion at 13 and is now considered the ablest all-around female swimmer in the U. S. Last year "Minnow" Rawls was A. A. U. low-board diving champion. This year she decided not to defend her diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley...
Engineer Hammond got plenty of varied experience, in California, Mexico, Central and South America, soon acquired the reputation of being an all-around capable man, with ''a nose for a mine," a useful pair of fists and a shrewd head. As soon as he could, he began to charge top-price fees. 'T exacted from my clients in the way of fees all that the traffic would bear, or almost the limit." Foreseeing a period .of depression after Cleveland's election in 1892, he decided to accept the offer of Diamond Tycoon "Barney"' Barnato (Barnett...
Wrote Scripps-Howard's tart, smart Westbrook Pegler: "There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years and up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn...
...fundamental issue in the naval conversations now," declared Ambassador Davis, "is essentially as follows: Is the equilibrium that was established by the system worked out in the Washington treaties to be continued or is it to be upset? The American Government stands for continuance. ... I have proposed a substantial all-around reduction in naval armaments to be effected in such a way as not to alter the relative strengths or jeopardize the security of the participating nations as established by these treaties. . . . We believe that . . . the system established has been of advantage to all concerned, and that abandonment...