Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan last week, the world's greatest miler, Glenn Cunningham, crouched on the same starting line with the year's flashiest middle-distance man, swiftfooted Negro John Borican. The distance was 1,000 yards, for which Elroy Robinson set the world's outdoor record of 2 min. 9.7 sec. in 1937. Veteran Starter Johnny McHugh, who has been sending track men off the mark for over 30 years, after two false starts raised his shiny little pistol and fired. They were away...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham: his first big two mile race, beating Indoor Record Holder Don Lash in 9:11.8; an invitation event at the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. meet in Manhattan. I.C. 4-A winner among 28 Eastern colleges: Manhattan College...
...provide yourself with a jazz band to attract attention?" Accorded full attention, the Embassy proceeded last week to itemize recent French orders for some $65,000,000 worth of U. S. military planes: 100 Curtiss fighters (added to 100 ordered last year); 200 North American advanced trainers; 115 Glenn Martin bombers; 100 replicas of the new Douglas bomber which crashed four weeks ago and revealed the presence of a French buying mission...
...feature event of the meet Glenn Cunningham nipped Chuck Fenske in a 4:15.5 mile as Gene Venzke was third...
...inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley...