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...early days, A. S. P. C. A. devoted itself to such matters as the ruthless over-crowding of calves and cows in shipment, the plucking of live fowl, the mixing of marble dust in horse and cattle food as filler. Nowadays such societies are busy with such diverse matters as inspecting poultry markets, removing injured animals in ambulances, extricating stranded cats from trees...
Running a two-mile race as a program filler at last year's Princeton Invitation Track Meet, barrel-chested Donald Ray Lash of the University of Indiana proceeded to dash the eight laps in the fastest time ever recorded for the distance outdoors. This year Princeton, hoping for another sensation, invited him to run the mile against Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali of Italy and Glenn Cunningham, world's record holder. Gene Venzke also entered to shoot at the world mark for three-quarters of a mile, incidentally pace the other four...
...mile race, a filler on the program, Lash took the lead in the first lap, set a blistering pace of 62.9 for the quarter. When he turned the mile in 4:26.9, faster than Nurmi's first mile in either of his records, the crowd glued its eyes to the huge seconds clock at the end of the stadium. After five laps, Norman Bright, accepted U. S. record holder, last of the field to try to keep up with the leader, dropped back and it was a race between Lash and the stopwatch...
...schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford them. As filler for doctors' pocketbooks he would permit the present system of the private practice of medicine to continue, would have private practitioners dispense the free drugs, assign patients to the free hospitals. By the nature of Dr. Parran's plans, thousands of the 167,000 doctors in this country...
...basis of sheer poundage the New York Sun won hands down last week, its special "Voice of Business" edition running 80 pages. So pressed for filler was the Sun that it included a book-length history, The Making of America, and several of Grover Cleveland's state papers...