Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cunningham's feat encouraged Dartmouth to try again. Last week the middle-distance flash of the season, Negro Portrait Painter & Student John Borican of Columbia University, who week before had jumped the gun to beat Glenn Cunningham in Manhattan in the fastest 1,000 yards ever run, went to Dartmouth to see how fast he could run 800 meters and the half-mile (880 yards). Spaced out to pace him were four Dartmouth runners with handicaps of from 10 to 95 yards. Careful was Borican this time to be off with the gun and not before. He turned...
...Herb Haymer's fragment at the end . . . Decca records, having lost Jimmy Lunceford, goes out and digs up a band by the name of Floyd Ray that not only plays like Lunceford, but shows possibilities of becoming much better . . . For drumming with all of Krupa's speed and flash but with taste and drive, listen to Cozy Cole on Callaway's "Ratamacue" (Vocalion) . . . Not swing, but still very funny is the Commodore release of "Private Jives," a parody on Noel Coward's "Private Lives" . . . Word also slips 'round that Vocalion has succumbed to the album craze, turning out a collection...
Frank Hubbard looks like number one sprint man now that John White, former New Jersey schoolboy flash, has deserted track for spring football...
...Hearst's inevitable dissolution was inherent in his career; now that that career is ending, its turning point stands out. In 1922 Hearst was at his zenith as a publisher. He owned 20 newspapers in 13 of the largest U. S. cities, with Universal Service and INS to flash them worldwide news, King Features Syndicate to dish out comics and boilerplate philosophy, the scandalsheet American Weekly to boost Sunday circulation into the multimillions. He had a string of magazines, a newsreel, a motion-picture company. He had the world's highest paid stable of writers and editors...
SOME DAY I'LL KILL You-Dana Chambers-Dial ($2). Murder and mayhem in the Connecticut countryside. Fast and witty, despite the somewhat Flash Gordon plot...