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Hero Owens. In 1924 Finn Paavo Nurmi won three Olympic races. Last week at Berlin, Cleveland's coffee-colored Jesse Owens bettered this achievement. On the first day of competition he broke the world's record for 100 metres in a trial heat (10.2 sec.). On the second day, he won the final in world-record time (10.3). On the third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with...
Lovelock's time was 3:47.8, a new world's record by a round second. The next four finishers-Cunningham, Beccali, San Romani, Edwards-broke the Olympic record of 3:51.2. In his dressing room, Lovelock coolly admitted he had known that incorrect placing of the starting line had cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could...
Shipped in sections on a special freight train, Vulcan broke every tackle in St. Louis before he was finally bolted together in the centre of the mines and manufacturing exhibition buildings. An inscription for the base was supplied by one of Birmingham's leading citizens, John Henry Adams...
...tells the story of Saha, a golden-eyed, jealous, aristocratic little animal that broke up a marriage, sapped the strength of young Alain Amparat until he came to care more for her than for his handsome wife. That Colette can make such a tale readable will be no surprise to her admirers. That she can manage to include in it many artful descriptions of amorous misadventures and much erotic play, they will take for granted. But if they expect her to make it plausible as well, they are demanding more of her fiction than she will give them...
Born in Hamburg, Iowa, at some undisclosed date before 1900, Lilie Bouton traveled to Reno and then to San Francisco, attended the Van Ness Seminary on Nob Hill, soon broke away from her parents' domination and got a part in a San Francisco theatrical troupe. She traveled East with the company, left it because of the manager's unwelcome attentions, was stranded in New York until she got a part in a road show. She was becoming well-known as an actress, had been engaged to Arthur Byron, refused the proposals of several eminent theatrical figures, when...