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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fencing is currently the fastest growing form of indoor athletics in the U. S. In the past year, equipment sales have jumped 50%. Women like fencing because they think it improves their posture. At U. S. Salles d'Armes feminine enrollment has also jumped 50% over a year ago. Victory of a Detroiter in a tournament which, except when it was won by German Helene Mayer, has always been won by Easterners, was one indication of fencing's spreading vogue. An even more spectacular one has been provided this winter by the presence in New York of Aldo...
...York to perform in Major Bowes' amateur program, he wished to contact the Roosevelt boys in an effort to persuade the First Lady of the Land to cast her vote for him. His chief proficiency in the field of amateur entertainment lies in the fastest known rendition of "The Stars and Stripes Forever," played upon a one-stringed violin...
...interspersed at an average of every five pages. The author is better than a middling fair lawyer in his own right and may be counted on to know what he is talking about--but the author should not talk so much in a detective story, supposedly filled with the fastest action from beginning...
Queen Mary. His first duty in Glasgow last week was to go out to John Brown's shipyard to inspect Queen Mary, the British challenger to the French champion Normandie, "Largest and Fastest Liner in the World." The Queen Mary is of roughly the same size as the 160,000-horsepower Normandie but of 40,000 greater horsepower. Hull designs of the two superships are sufficiently different to make horsepower not necessarily the decisive factor. Obviously the speed trials of the Queen Mary late this month off Ireland will be an international sporting event of first magnitude. Aboard...
...fastest, scrappiest game of the year, the Crimson sextet skated away with an 8-0 victory at the Arena Saturday evening and avenged the 4-3 Tiger upset of six weeks ago. A playoff will be held in the Garden Wednesday evening but it should be little trouble to Joe Stubbs' skaters if they continue to show the same spirit and ability...