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...police, was one Joe Weiner (no kin to Poulterer Sam). Attorney Foley had him indicted with his seven henchmen. It proved easier to indict him than to find him. Police began combing the city, delaying the trial meanwhile. Joseph Weiner was one of 81 defendants who sat on the grandstand required when a Federal judge held a wholesale trial...
...down first, then Society and one of the favorites, Heartbreak Hill. Jock Whitney's Dusty Foot took off too soon and his rider, George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. turned a double somersault, got up with his face cut.* The part of the 250,000 crowd that was in the grandstand lost the field as it moved around toward the Canal Turn. Not until the horses came thundering heavily past the stands the first time around could the dense, shouting mob packed against the rail get a clear idea of how the race was going. Colliery Band went past first, with...
...boxing, basketball, fencing, swimming, and wrestling at the Indoor Athletic Building; to the baseball and lacrosse games at Soldiers Field, as well as all track meets with the exception of the Intercollegiate Track and Field Games if they are held at Cambridge. The book also will admit to the grandstand at Divinity Field where the Varsity and Freshman tennis matches are played. The book will admit to thirty-three contests, the total value of tickets to which...
...very time when the need for clear thinking is greatest. "Technocracy," which has furnished a source of news to every periodical in the nation, but which has finally exploded in a cloud of misunderstanding and wasted breath, is merely a more extreme example of this predilection for grandstand play. It cannot be maintained that all the exponents of startling new theories are merely seeking remuneration; many are admittedly altruistic. But a cause which, like that of the Economic League, is fundamentally sound should be guided in every case by the principles of intellectual moderation, for its own safekeeping as well...
...except one. piloted by Lieut. Glenn M. Britt, which continued to shoot earthward at 300 m.p.h. About 250 ft. above the ground Lieut. Britt jumped clear, pulled his ripcord. His 'chute barely billowed open before he struck the ground, just after his plane crashed in front of the grandstand. Lieut. Britt picked himself up, hurried to a microphone, greeted the crowd: "Hello, everybody! I'm not hurt, thank...