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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High jump--Won by Partlow (H); second, Russell (H); tied for third Gould (A) and Hochm (H). Height--5ft, 11 1/2in...
Shot put--Won by Harlow (H); second, Cutter (A); third, Budlong (H). Distance--47ft...
Pole vault--Won by Rosenberger (H); tied for second, Martin (A), Stimson (A), Donohue (H). Height--11ft...
...desk in Washington last week Executive Secretary Joseph Green of the State Department's National Munitions Control Board signed a license for the shipment to Germany of 2,000,000 cu. ft. of helium for Nazi dirigibles (TIME, Jan. 17). For making the first break in the U. S. Government's virtual monopoly of the world supply, the Board forestalled anti-Nazi criticism by explaining: 1) that U. S. stores are adequate for several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably...
...worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course of sprouts (Slave Ship, Lancer...