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Forty-one runners doffed their sweat clothes on the Eliot House side of the Anderson Bridge at 3:30 o'clock for the beginning of the race. In the chill fall wind that swept across the river the competitors were sent off in six groups, with the first five having time advantages over the last of six minutes, forty seconds, three minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, fifty seconds, two minutes, ten seconds, and one minute and fifty seconds respectively...
...reading of the three different thermometers used was verified by several nurses present, the Sister in charge of that wing of the hospital, and myself. Although an oxygen tent was required for ten days following the severe chill and high fever, she recovered...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
...Onetime (1916-21) Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, of a slight cerebral thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy; Federal Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, of a fractured ankle suffered...
BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE-William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin-Foreign Policy Association (35?). Presenting in 46 pages the cold-chill, cold-cash headline facts on the world armaments race-with special advice...