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...Under a searing sun which killed one man, dropped a score of others, a three-hour historical parade filed through the streets of Salt Lake City. Queen of the celebration was Margaret Young, 20, a great-great-granddaughter of old Brigham through the line of eldest sons.* On her float which won first prize in the parade, Miss Young, garbed all in white, represented "Miss Pioneer." Present also were ten old codgers, querulous in the heat, who had crossed the plains during the first decade (1847-57) of the Mormon migration...
Coach Cromwell is baldheaded, expansive, slightly fussy. His charges are proud and pleased when he kisses them for winning a race, as last week he kissed Vic Williams. In such gestures as this? and the circumstance that young Runner Wykoff, as a reward for winning races, will ride a float in Los Angeles next week as ruler of a pre-Olympic pageant?are implied the true reason for Californian athletic supremacy?Enthusiasm...
...rowboat renting float went next, slipped under the bridge successfully, then swung inshore again, ripped loose two big bathing barges and another rowboat float. Out in midstream again went the floating mass of derelicts, slowly spinning round and round. With a crash it broke against the Ernest Walz Bridge, but the Ernest Walz stood firm. Spectators cheered hilariously as the bathhouses went down with towels flying...
Where it comes from I do not know. Perhaps old in Cuba, perhaps from nearby Haiti whence cane cutters come annually. Lie awake in the towns of Haiti in the still of night and drum beats of similar rhythm float down to you from the hills...
...first time out on the river with a launch, the Lowell crew met with an unfortunate obstacle in the river yesterday. Partly as a result of the wind, and partly due to the presence of the Browne and Nichols float, the Lowell House shell met with misfortune. The crew returned home in the launch...