Word: holders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phil Cope, University of Southern California senior, co-holder of the U. S. 120-yd. high hurdles record, dreamed he saw burglars crawling through his bedroom window, sprang up to repulse the invaders, hurdled through the window. At a Los Angeles hospital surgeons took 40 stitches to close gashes in his left hand and both feet. His wife slept soundly through his nightmare and leap. His greatest regret: having to call off a projected fishing trip...
...third week, nine planes buzzed away from London after the prize money. Because of the rules, all nine started along the same route. Three presently dropped out because of minor troubles, one at Regensburg, Germany, one at Belgrade, one at Salonika, Greece. At Cairo, Flight Lieut. Tommy Rose, holder of the England-South Africa record, smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill...
...careers by buying the old Davis Store from Marshall Field (TIME, Sept. 14), acquired as general manager a distinguished U. S. fighting man. From Fort Sam Houston, Tex. to be executive vice president of the Goldblatt stores went Major General Frank Parker, 64, wartime commander of the First Division, holder of the Distinguished Service Medal with two silver star citations for gallantry in action, the French War Cross with three palms and the Italian Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown, Commander of the French Legion of Honor, the Belgian Order of the Crown and the Order of Polonia...
President Richard Spencer Childs of Manhattan's City Club invited William Pickens, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Yale Phi Beta Kappa key holder to join. When an acceptance arrived on N.A.A.C.P. stationery, the City Club hastily sent an emissary to beg Ne gro Piekens to let his invitation "drop for fear of doing harm." Officials in Hyannis, Mass., who last month flunked Harvard's crusty 79-year-old President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell in a driving test (TIME, Sept. 14), gave him a new examination, announced that...
...Ticket holder will also have the privilege of the free use of all the facilities in the Indoor Athletic Building, except at times when regularly organized teams or candidates shall hold preference. They may, however, only use the swimming pool for half an hour per day. The ticket also entitles it owners to free use of Dillon Field House and its equipment...