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...having a hard time grasping the importance of becoming the world's fastest kiwi peeler(multiple-record holder Alastair Galpin set that mark this week, stripping and eating the fruit in about 16 seconds) you're not alone. "There can be a snobbishness about record breaking," the book's editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, told Britain's Sky News. "What may seem pointless to you could be a passion for someone else." For some, record-breaking itself has become a consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched...
Yard: re, Parker, Silver; rt, Galpin; rg, Knight; c, D. Richardson; lg, Slayton; lt, Nosek; le, Ohler. MacMurray; backs, S. Evans, O'Keefe, Manning, Zimmerman, Lindblatt...
...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
...being asked what books he is writing, he replied, "That is my malady, you know, I am always writing books." At the present, he continued, he is still working on "A Systematic Source Book in Rural Sociology" in collaboration with C. C. Zimmerman and C. J. Galpin, for the United States Department of Agriculture, the third volume of which will be ready sometime this fall. His book entitled "Contemporary Sociological Theories," published in 1928, has already been translated into German and Chinese, and is now in the process of being translated into Japanese, Czecho-Slovakian, and Yugo-Slavian...
...lectured at several American Universities before he went to the University of Minnesota to become a member of the Department of Sociology. For a time he has been engaged in a study of rural sociology for the United States Department of Agriculture under the direction of Dr. C. J. Galpin, economist in charge of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life...