Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maurice Drouhin. In Paris, Maurice Drouhin, commercial pilot, holder of many records, announced that he and a comrade were ready to fly a Farman (French make) biplane across the Atlantic and back. But Charles A. Levine of Manhattan was in Paris, hunting everywhere for someone to pilot him back to the U. S. in the Bellanca ship, Columbia, that flew from New York to Berlin...
...been buried after mere certification that their hearts have ceased to beat. Some have come alive in the dark tomb, only to die unsuccored. May it then be that the heart pulsations are not paramount in sustaining life? Such is the theory advanced last week by Dr. Martin Mendelsohn, holder since 1899 of the Chair of Diseases of the Heart at Berlin University. He declared that other tests than cessation of the heartbeats must be made before certifying a patient dead...
...special events have been arranged in both of which a small number of nationally known athletes will compete. Carr of Yale, holder of the world's record in the pole vault, will lead a field of three entries in that event. Harrington of the B. A. A. and Libby of Dartmouth being his rivals. A ten mile race is also planned in which four leading American marathoners are entered. Miles and Hanigan of the B. A. A. will fight it out in this race with Michelson of the Cygnet A. C., and Koski of the Finnish-American...
...Wakely furnished further surprise by turning in a mark of 1 minute 56 3-5 seconds in the half which was the best time in this event registered during the afternoon Dowding, last year's broad jump champion, was the only title holder to be forced out of the competition without reaching the second...
Word was received here yesterday that Coach Templeton with the other 14 members of the Stanford I. C. A. A. A. A. track squad started eastward last Saturday and will arrive in Philadelphia tomorrow. The other Pacific Coast entrants, Southern California, present title-holder, and the University of California are also enroute and are expected to arrive about the same time as their Stanford rivals