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...corpses, stretched them between two receding clamps, noted the reading on a beam balance when the tendon broke. Experimenter Cronkite could find no clear correlation between tendon strength and age, cause of death or function of the tendon. In general the strength varied between 9,000 and 18,000 Ib. per sq. in. of cross section. One tendon from an 85-year-old man stood up under nearly 30,000 Ib. per sq. in., about 10% of the tensile strength of steel piano wire...
Young Roger Knapp can lift 1,165 Ib. attached to a bar across his thighs. He can raise 765 Ib. shoulder high, has a 159-Ib. grip with his left hand, a 155-lb. grip with his right. He chins himself 30 times in succession. Stretched on the floor, he raises and lowers himself by his arms 80 times in succession. He weighs 175 Ib., stands...
Born. To Barbara Button Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, 23, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38; their first child, a boy; in London. Weight: 7½ Ib. Name: none, until the Count & Countess "have discussed the matter more thoroughly...
...tendency of rockets to wabble in flight, Dr. Goddard has worked out a small gyroscope that keeps his missiles in line by switching the tail vanes when necessary. Equipped with this and launched from his 60-ft. tower, Dr. Goddard's latest model, a twelve-footer weighing 140 Ib. with fuel, has reached speeds of 700 m.p.h., heights around 7,500 ft. Its fall is protected by an automatic parachute. Dr. Goddard, who hates to stir up gaudy talk of moon flights, announces his present objective as reaching 50 miles into the stratosphere "to obtain meteorological, astronomical, magnetic...
...daughter of onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain; and Prince Alessandro Torlonio 24; a daughter, their first child; in Rome. Name: Sandra Vittoria Beatrice Maria. Born. To James Roosevelt, 28; and Betsey Gushing Roosevelt: their second daughter, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's sixth grandchild; in Manhattan. Weight: 8 Ib. Name: Katharine ("Kate"). Died. Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn, né Gebhardi, 38, reputed onetime Capone No. 1 triggerman; shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief...