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...ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated at public schools and libraries, by odd jobs and semi-starvation, William Saroyan began to write in his teens. But, says he, "I am not a writer at all. ... I write because there is nothing...
University of Southern California, with 63 points: the West Coast Relays at Fresno, Calif., run at night. In an exhibition 100-yd. dash, George Anderson, 18, University of California freshman, equaled the world's record...
...Walter Marty, of Fresno State College: a new unofficial world's high-jump record of 6 ft. 9] in., almost an inch more than his old record of 6 ft. 8 3/4in., made indoors last month; in a meet with Sacramento Junior College; at Fresno, Calif...
...Fordham; 25 ft. 3¼ in. for the running broadjump, by Jesse Owens of Ohio State. More remarkable than either was a performance which, beause of the technicalities of A. A. U. rules, set no record at all. George Spitz of N. Y. U. and Walter Marty of Fresno State College tied for the high jump championship at 6 ft. 7½ in. Then the bar was set at 6 ft. 8⅞ in. for an exhibition. Marty cleared it on his fourth try. He got a gold medal but no credit for a world's record; his jump...
...meet produced two new world's records: 14 ft. 4 in. for an indoor pole vault, by Keith Brown of Yale; 6 ft. 8½ in. for the high jump, by Walter Marty of Fresno State Teachers College...