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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually racquets, fastest of all indoor court games, takes years to master, and Grant's achievement last week was the climax of a court career which, for variety as well as brevity, is probably the most extraordinary on record in the polite history of U. S. court games. At Harvard, where he graduated in 1934, Grant captained the squash racquets team. A year later, he played on the New York Harvard Club's squash racquets team, won New York's Metropolitan squash racquets championship. Last year, Grant gave up squash racquets for squash tennis, soon became...
...Donald Ray Lash, Indiana University runner: the fastest two-mile race in history: in 8 min. 58 sec., shading Paavo Nurmi's indoor record (8:58.2) and his own outdoor world record (8:58.3); in Boston's Garden...
...York Curb Exchange, whirled around in the Millrose 600 so rapidly that he left behind two national champions and the 800-metre Olympic champion, Negro John Woodruff of University of Pittsburgh. Catapulted into national publicity when one of them beat Don Lash, world record holder, in the second fastest outdoor two-mile race ever run in the U. S., at the Sugar Bowl Games at New Orleans last month, the arrival of the Rideout Twins for the northern winter track season sent researchers scurrying for data on identical twins in sport...
...tried together throughout the indoor season. But Coach Bolles stressed the fact that he never decided on his final boats, even tentatively, until, he saw them in the water in the spring. "No matter how they look," according to his creed, "the first boat is the one that goes fastest...
...Empire but a sort of Roxified Renaissance is the Hotel Senator bar, and Architect Lansburgh had just two weeks to get the work done. Puzzling this problem he called in the fastest-working firm of mural painters he could think of, the Heinsbergen Decorating Co. of Los Angeles, and last week the job was done. Before the startled eyes of Empire Room drinkers appeared two 9-ft. panels, the first known murals on the subject of the Love of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson...