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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...born in Ontario approximately 40 years ago, one of the 15 children of prolific Thomas J. Lewis of Hamilton. An older sister was the indefatigable tragedienne Julia Arthur (Lewis) who was born four years after Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House and insisted on playing Joan of Arc...
...About 25 mi. from small Eldorado, Ohio. †Writer (books, magazine articles), poet (Lace Maker of Segovia), authority on Spanish and Spanish-American affairs, son of California's late great Collis Potter Huntington. His wife is Sculptress Anna Vaughan Hyatt Huntington (small bronzes, large Joans-of-Arc in half a dozen cities, flagpoles in Manhattan). *For his indefatigable daily despatches to the Times from Little America dramatizing the exploits of the Byrd Expedition, Correspondent Russell Owen received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism...
...pool, New York, the best U. S. women swimmers and divers congregated last week for the A. A. U. championships in a meet made especially important by its bearing on next year's Olympics. The swimmers raced at night, lashing silver lines of spray across a pool which arc-lights made shiny and black. Among the spectators were lifeguards from beaches nearby; parents of contestants; Gertrude Ederle who was amazed at Helene Madison and asked Georgia Coleman for an autograph signed "divingly yours...
...leaving Lee Sentman of Illinois behind him at the fourth bar, winning by two full yards. His time, 14.2 sec., was | sec. better than the world's record made by Dartmouth's Earl Thomson in 1920. In the clear evening, when huge arc-lights made the grass sparkle, another world's record was broken. Policeman McDonald tossed his 35-lb. weight 21 ft. 6 in., six inches farther than the 18-year-old record set by his onetime teammate, Patrick Ryan. Leo Lermond won the mile race by a yard over his New York Athletic Club teammate...
...bonds arc better...