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This intramural track event offers all cinder aspirants, from Yardlings to graduates, aided by equalizing handicaps based on past records and appearances, to challenge Varsity men. Firsts and seconds were, well scattered among all the classes. Two Freshmen, one Sophomore, two Juniors, one Senior, and one graduate student took firsts...
Fortnight ago beefy (collar size: 17) Queens County Court Deputy Clerk Thomas J. Smyth boarded a Long Island train (non-air-conditioned) to ride to his job. It was a hot morning; he sweated, squirmed, took off his coat, exposed a clean white shirt to the cinder-covered seats. At his office he changed shirts, sent the dirty one to the Long Island's claims agent, requested that it be laundered. "If this cannot be done," wrote he, "I donate the shirt for use as an oil rag in one of your repair shops...
...paintings. New Mexico's Governor John E. Miles exclaimed: "I sometimes think this man Raymond Huff uses elastic dollars, he makes them go so far." This summer Superintendent Huff began to build a stadium, which, when it is finished next month, will have a football field, cinder track, lighted tennis courts, roller and ice skating rinks, barbecue pits. He also started construction of a new cafeteria, put his students to work last fortnight making dishes for it from Clayton clay...
...first time this year the Mikkolamen will be at full strength for this all-important meet. With the approach of the contest with their New Haven rivals, the cinder invalids are revitalized and are now fit and ready for action...
Jaakko Mikkola and his cinder pounders will meet six other college tomorrow at Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the mythical championship of the Ivy League. Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale will vie with the Crimson in the annual heptagonal...