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...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...
...Rouen, three weeks ago, a girl named Juliette Brebant played the part of St. Joan of Arc in the 500th anniversary celebration of the Maid's martyrdom. Climax of the proceedings came when pious Mlle Brebant was bound to a stake and had Roman candles and Chinese fire set off about her feet. In a high state of religious ecstasy, she fainted. Last week in a Paris hospital she was still delirious. Doctors despaired of her life...
...bonds arc better...
...They encounter the Russian interpreters who are usually girls, young, pretty, shrewd and without morals. There arc Americans in Russia now who are going to find it difficult to get out when their babies are born...