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Last week, the Cuban Senate rudely impeached President Gomez (see p. 18). Two days later his Sports Festival started off serenely enough under the new Government. With 3,000 spectators squealing joyously. Sprinter Owens ran 100 yards on the cinder track beside the Tropical Stadium football field in 9.9 sec. His opponent, a mediocre racehorse named Julio McCaw started 40 yards behind Owens, gained ground by cutting across a curve onto the football field, finished second...
...Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington Scranton, Republican National Committeewoman and dowager of Pennsylvania politics. Past West Middlesex' dozen stores and between its few blocks of houses they sped amid shouts of "Hurrah" and "Come...
...running two miles around a soggy cinder track in Princeton's Palmer Stadium, a lean, barrel-chested young man from Auburn, Ind. last week made himself the most talked about athlete in the U. S. The young man was Donald Ray Lash, 22-year-old junior at Indiana University. What made the feat remarkable was the time it took him to accomplish...
...brand new idea--night maneuvers. Dunster has always prided itself in its distance from the hubbub and turmoil of Harvard Square or Bolyston Street, but alas and alackaday, those quiet days and silent nights are gone forever. Solemnly advised an Aentry man: "Freshman, pick your House with a cinder path or a nice brick walk...
Members of the Crimson track squad will have an opportunity to hear the opinions of cinder experts in a discussion of their own events when Jack Torrance, Charles Hornbostel and Ray Sears give short addresses at a meeting of tracksters and other interested persons at 3.15 'clock today in the lounge of Dillon Field House...