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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to start holding Olympic games again, every leap year. 1936 was a leap year and back then in the early era of Roosevelt the last Olympic games were held. In that year Jesse Owens streaked to four world's records in the Berlin Stadium, the University of Washington crew edged the best eights in the world, and miler Lou Zamperini climbed up a flagpole after a swastika and shinnied right into an international incident. Perhaps it's a sign that peace is really here; for in 1948 the world plans to hold another edition of the Olympic games this...
Last spring's championship 150-pound crew received another laurel yesterday as the H.A.A. voted to award major H's to every member of the undefeated first boat...
...results. John Kristopick, who at 210 is one of the heaviest men on the squad, and was an all-state guard in his high school days, definitely knows his way around a line of scrimmage and is a serious contender for a tackle post. Lamar is building his end crew around Ralph Bender and George Emmons, who came out as ends and are leading the pack. But Bob Tolf, Waring, and Sitter, switched from their mid-line positions have given Lamar a tough decision to make in picking his pass receivers...
...hours before the landing at Brize Norton last week, the C-54 was taxied out on a runway at Stephenville, Newfoundland, and pointed in the general direction of London. Colonel J. M. Gillespie, her commander, pushed a button. From then on, the plane behaved as if an invisible crew were working her controls. The four engines roared for the takeoff, the brakes let go, the plane sped down the runway and climbed up over the Atlantic while the wheels retracted automatically. At 9,000 ft., it leveled off and headed for London at normal cruising speed...
...over, the crew checked the course and watched the instruments. Most of them had little to do. They played cards and read books. (Reports said nothing about the flight engineer, who probably nursed his engines as usual...