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Even though Gourdin lost the Olympic title in the broad jump to Michigan's DeHart Hubbard, Gourdin leaped to an incredible 25' 8" the next day in a noncompetitive demonstration, topping Hubbard's Olympic jump...
...Students perform perfunctory experiments to prove points already memorized, poke away at frogs and recite by rote an endless, largely meaningless list of Latin names, learning little of the processes by which life exists on earth and which have fascinated man since the beginning of time. Says Biologist Paul DeHart Kurd of Stanford University: "The mere skeleton of science is presented, and the facts are divorced from anything that might be called the processes of science, sterilized of their beauty and left dangling without a place in the scheme of things...
...Francis DeHart Houston...
...John Richard Pavlock, just out of high school, who conducted Whispering with a dignified beat-result of ten years' listening to the Detroit Symphony. Charles Hill, a fat little high-school teacher, thrashed through the Darktown Strutters' Ball, nearly fell down at the end, won $25. Bill DeHart, gangling 15-year-old, took $15 for his wild, jitterbugging direction of Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet. By week's end, when he moved on to hold contests in Cincinnati, Sammy Kaye was ordering batons in lots of 1,000, giving them away to admirers as well...
...last five years athletes like DeHart Hubbard, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe, Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock have made it apparent that Negroes can jump farther and run short distances faster than whites. Last week onetime Yale field Coach Albert McGall suggested a reason which sounded more likely than those usually proposed by his confreres: in Negroes, os calcis (heel bone) juts out farther at the back of the foot than it does in whites, gives them better leverage...