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...sphere 64 ft. in diameter, the height of a five-story apartment house. At the base, like garden slugs under a puff ball, are two horizontal steel tanks the size of bungalows. All three structures are built to withstand the force of compressed air in which Dr. Orval James Cunningham, the designer, has his patients live...
Married. Glenn Cunningham, 24, holder of the world's record for the mile (4 min. 6.7 sec.): and Margaret Speir, his classmate at University of Kansas; in Marion, Kans...
...usual in contests between Bonthron and Cunningham, they had for pacemaker, a miler who two years ago was considered the greatest ever developed in the U. S. - Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania. As usual, they let Venzke lead for the first lap. Cunningham passed him first, Bonthron a little farther on. One hundred and fifty yards from the finish, when Cunningham was 15 yd. ahead and gaining slowly, it looked as if last week's race might be a replica of the one at Princeton three weeks ago when Cunningham won by 40 yd. with a new world...
...last turn, he gained 7 yd. Down the home stretch he made up the distance more slowly, a yard at a time. Twenty yards from the tape, the two men were abreast. Ten yards farther on, Bonthron was almost 2 ft. ahead. He turned his head to look at Cunningham, then broke the tape with a world's record...
Sports pages this spring have been full of stories about how Cunningham's legs were burned in a school-house fire so badly that doctors did not expect him ever to walk again. When Bonthron was a child, he encountered a live wire while climbing in an apple tree. The result was a burn which left a large scar on his left leg. Like Venzke, who used to run to work every day for training, Bonthron goes everywhere on his own two feet. He owns no automobile, dislikes streetcars because "they stop at every corner." In racing against Cunningham...