Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National League Phillies, both rated as likely tail-enders in their respective leagues, began a three-out-of-five-game series for their city championship. In Tulsa, Okla., the world champion New York Yankees won their 13th straight game, 8-to-3, against the Tulsa Oilers. In Daytona, Fla., the St. Louis Cardinals started north via a miserable record of four victories in 14 exhibition games...
...recipients of the awards, part of money given by undergraduates to the Council, are: Chester George Ormond '38, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; William Bernhard Berssenbrugge '37, of Milwaukee; William Tucker Dean, Jr. '37, of Chicago; John Edward Ashley '37, of Daytona Beach, Florida; Charles Graham Roudabush '37, of Tampa, Florida; Charles Reder '38, of Pittsfield; Arthur Raymond Hartwig Occ., of Lawrence; Nathanael Augustus Lemke '38, of Milwaukee; John Jerome Cabitor '39, of Hartford, Connecticut; and Dino James Lewis '37, of Newport, Rhode Island...
...ensuing pages by a number of press quotations from Music News, the Elkhart, Ind. Tribune, the Birming ham, N. Y. Press, followed by approving letters from Booth Tarkington, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Senator & Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis, and Mrs. H. G. Wotherspoon, president of the Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing 29 Logan prizewinners plus other canvases of mediocre representational cast, plus still more by Cezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, Salvador Dali...
John Davison Rockefeller Sr., 96, was taking his longest automobile ride of the season along Florida's Daytona Beach last fortnight when he spied one Al Garb, a beach photographer who took his picture six years ago. Ordering his big maroon limousine to stop, Oldster Rockefeller peered out, asked Al Garb how much money he had made from the photograph. Al Garb chirped a figure. Cackling with delight, Oldster Rockefeller complimented him on his industry, posed for another photograph (see cut) with which last week Cameraman Garb made more money...
When, in 1922, he first made up his mind to travel faster on land than anyone else, Sir Malcolm Campbell immediately found himself faced by a corollary problem: where to do it? He spent five years inspecting beaches & deserts, finally picked out Daytona Beach, Fla. as the place best suited to his purposes. Wind and rain last spring delayed his sprint for weeks, finally prevented Sir Malcolm from making more than a picayune world's record of 276 m.p.h. He began the search again. Whether or not Sir Malcolm Campbell decides he wants to go faster in the future...