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Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights...
Princeton students, and especially soccer players, of a decade ago remember Charley Woodbridge well. They remember him carrying trays in Commons as he worked his way through. They remember his antic agility on the soccer field, where he more than held his own in the forward line against much heavier men. He had learned the game from the English at school in China, where he was born in 1901 in a family which counts 14 generations of ministers, back to 1493. They remember that, without being a "greasy-grind," Charley Woodbridge was always near the head of his class...
First Game was played in Detroit where Chicago had not won a hockey game in two years. Both fast, light teams, unpopular with crowds all winter because they lacked power to play "open" hockey against heavier opponents, Black Hawks and Red Wings started by playing even more cautiously than usual against each other. Seasoned Lionel Conacher, most celebrated all-around athlete in Canada, made the first goal for Chicago near the end of the first period. Herb Lewis, captain and star left wing of Detroit's first forward line, tied the score in the third. In games...
...known compounds. Deuterium promised to be a twin prima donna capable of producing 300,000 new compounds. Commonest hydrogen compound is hydrogen oxide-water. First and most obvious heavy hydrogen compound is deuterium oxide-heavy water. In fact this looks like ordinary water and is only 10 percent heavier...
...inherit the cantankerous, gloomy disposition of their father while racing. Man o' War, still called "Big Red" by stable boys, was a glutton and had to wear a muzzle between meals to prevent him from swallowing stones, sticks, or bits of harness. Grown milder and 160 lb. heavier with age, he is now more tractable and far wiser. He drinks water from a golden cup which was one of his prizes. On his birthday last week, he behaved as usual-ate four quarts of oats, galloped four miles, sunned himself in paddock for two hours. A cake containing...