Word: bicyclists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert ("Bobby") Walthour Sr., 71, Georgia-born bicyclist who retired 20 years ago after breaking his collarbone for the 29th time, simultaneously held the U.S. and European speed records (in 1903 he pedaled a mile in 1 min. 7 sec.); of pneumonia; in Boston...
Colonel Melvin Hall, U.S.A.A.F (ret.), has led the life that small boys and commuters dream of. His father, a successful Vermont businessman, was a passionate canoeist, boxer, bicyclist, motorist and traveler, and he shared those hobbies with his son just as soon as Melvin was out of diapers. At twelve, young Hall made his first tour of Europe (in a Pan-hard); at 17, he was ridden clear around the world; at 18 he attended George V's Coronation Durbar (1911) in India, watched the imperial sweat drip from the ermine band of the royal crown, while rajahs...
After Jane kills the blackmailer, Bill first knocks out the attendant at a parking lot, then the owner of a car which he needs to make a getaway. With the unconscious driver in the seat beside him, Bill runs into a bicyclist, and police give chase. When the police car draws alongside, Bill swerves his car into it, wrecks his own to boot. Jane is hurt, the police unconscious, Bill kills the car owner (so the police will blame him for hitting the cyclist), carries Jane, her face so disfigured that she is safe from recognition, to a hospital...
...genuinely native as a buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success has its 25-year-old choreographer in a state of amaze. Sharp-faced pint-sized Jerome Robbins a dancer...
...Navy named Henry Kaiser board chairman in March, and in the same move shoehorned into the president's chair fat, ponderous Fred Riebel Jr., 61, onetime football guard (Purdue), bicyclist, weightlifter. Riebel had spent an engineering career at Westinghouse, the Hamilton-Beach division of Scovill Manufacturing Co., and Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. A vice president, he retired in 1936 to devote all his time to deep-sea fishing...