Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Randalls Island, To make the Olympic tryouts the year's most brilliant track meet and to hold it in a brand new stadium was the commendable plan of Chairman William J. Bingham of the Olympic Track & Field Committee. Last March he asked New York City's Park Commissioner Moses when the new Triborough Bridge - and Randalls Island Stadium would be ready. Commissioner Moses promised they would be ready in time for the Olympic tryouts. Last week, Commissioner Moses kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before...
Ambassadors Phillips and Suvich are both of the polished and professional type, cool to all but their closest friends. Both are considered by tailors to be utterly faultless in their attire. By competent if not brilliant work, both had plodded successfully along the road of "career men." For Signore Suvich, however, the appointment was a negative promotion. For Mr. Phillips it was a positive professional advancement...
...short, muscular, and his blue eyes protruded slightly. His blue-eyed German professors of war found him so brilliant that they called him "The Little Moltke," and he conceived for Ger many a passionate admiration...
...bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because of her small allowance handicap. Last week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon at St. David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line four minutes ahead of the schooner Brilliant. When the race was over, however, neither had won, for brand new Kirawan, finishing third, beat them both by her 13-hr. time allowance. Time of the winner was 4 days, 20 hr., very slow because of a 50 m.p.h. gale which swooped down on the fleet in the Gulf...
...navigator aboard Brilliant last week was 45-year-old Alfred Fullerton Loomis, one of the most experienced ocean racers in the world. On a submarine-chaser during the War, Sailor Loomis has spent most of the years since then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing...