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...Eastman's Sneakers...
...precedent although it breaks my heart to break TIME'S perfect record. In the issue of July 11, p. 20, under "Sports" appears the following sentence referring to Benjamin Bangs Eastman: ''He ran in sneakers." On the cover is a dramatic picture of that event showing the latter racing in spiked track shoes...
...Palo Alto. When he beat Stanford's Ben Eastman in a quarter-mile race three weeks ago, stocky little William Arthur Carr of the University of Pennsylvania failed to oblige Californians by sharing their amazement. "I know I can run 47 sec. again," said he, "but I don't know what Eastman will do the next time." In the final track & field trials at Palo Alto, Calif, last week. Carr had his chance to find out what Eastman would do at 400 metres. Carr won a fast heat. Eastman won a slow one. In the final, Carr...
...when German submarines were sinking U. S. oil tankers, oil was precious. One of the jobs of the Engineering Commission of Submarine Defense was to make oil go further. Its chairman, Lindon Wallace Bates, with the backing of the late Cameraman George Eastman, finally stabilized a 50% mixture of coal dust in oil. The U. S. S. Gem tested it successfully. After the War, Inventor Bates learned that two Germans had invented a similar fuel in 1914. He bought up their patents, developed his fuel still further...
Unlike Runners Venzke and McCluskey, Ben Eastman never had occasion to trot about his business. His father is president of Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Co. and Spring Valley Land Co. At Stanford, where his brother Samuel Palmer Eastman Jr. is also on the track team, Ben Eastman majors in economics, plans to go to Stanford's graduate school of business. He belongs to Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity, an organization called Skull & Snakes, and the Board of Athletic Control. In May he was elected Captain of the track team. He has no special training methods. He eats what...