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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barney Ewell, the Penn State Sophomore, and a Negro, is potentially one of the fastest dash men since the legendary Jesse Owens. The national 200-meter champion and holder of the World's Indoor Record for the 50-yard dash, Barney Ewell will be favored to win the 100 and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump next weekend. The lithe Negro already has run 9.6 for the 100, 20.8 for the 220-yard dash, and has broad jumped over 24 feet. With fast fields against him in both dashes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U. of C., Penn State, Pitt Clash on IC4A Track at Stadium Friday; Lightbody Crimson Hope | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

Protest came chiefly from Massachusetts Investors Trust, holder of 21,700 shares of the Class A stock which, under the Odium plan, would have been exchanged for common and new preferred. Giving nine reasons against the plan, M. I. T. persuaded the management that the stipulated two-thirds of the stockholders would never approve it. Last week, with still other stockholders joining the uproar, Floyd Odium issued a long announcement, Guy Vaughan a short one. Kernel of both: the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECURITIES: Deal Off | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Died. Edwin Fitch Northrup, 75, onetime Princeton physicist, electrothermic engineer, holder of 104 patents for ways and means of producing and measuring high temperatures; in Princeton, N. J. In 1931 a furnace he invented produced a temperature of 3,600°, instantly vaporized rocks and pieces of iron dropped into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Governor on the Democratic ticket: eleven-including Busman Burton Schoepf, who partly financed his campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Local Affairs | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Christmas greetings still seem to be in order for Leslie C. Tihany 3G, holder of the Frederick Sheldon travelling fellowship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE GETS OLD XMAS CARD FROM U. S. VIA HELSINKI | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

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