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Enclosed in the 40-by-120-yard transept of Dartmouth College's vast, cruciform gymnasium at Hanover, N. H. lies the fastest foot-racing track in the world. It was laid seven years ago on the college's 30-year-old indoor cinder track so that Dartmouth boys competing in big indoor meets could accustom themselves to board tracks. But in building it, Dartmouth's Buildings Superintendent Willard Gooding made a few constructive errors...
Wooderson is a frail-looking London solicitor whom the British fondly call "Leather Legs." Main chance U. S. runners have at his three world records is over the ultra-fast cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, where Cunningham, Ben Eastman and New Zealand's Jack Lovelock all set previous world records...
...Marlborough-on-Hudson, N. Y., the 150-year-old workshop of Frederic William Goudy, No. 1 U. S. type designer, caught fire and burned to a cinder. Destroyed were: the press on which William Morris printed his Kelmscott Chaucer; the specially made precision instruments with which Goudy made the matrices for his type; his stock of 3,000 to 4,000 matrices. Twenty of his most-famed type faces (he has designed 107)* never having been cast, can never be reproduced. Said 73-year-old Frederic Goudy: "A body blow...
...swing concert in Randall's Island Stadium, 23,400 New York City jitterbugs trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders were: Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Vincent Lopez. Absent was Killer Diller Benny Goodman (see p. 22), who will hold his own swing fiesta in Madison Square Garden, June...
Marines stationed at the drydock and soldiers from the army base hastened to the scene believing both men injured as the plane stood with its nose stuck in the cinder field...