Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldest collegiate track meet in the U. S. is the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. championships. Last week representatives of 31 colleges met in New York City's vast Municipal Stadium at Randall's Island for the 62nd annual meet, climax of the season...
...Kent, in a big L-shaped, hard-to-heat house composed of an old barn and four old cottages joined together. They rent the place and three acres of ground from Novelist Victoria Sackville-West, but are giving it up this month to move to the French island of Illiec, off the north coast of Brittany. Mme Carrel, who lives most of the year on the neighboring island of St. Gildas, recently secured it for them. With the barren island went a three-story stone house of nine big rooms. Illiec provides all the seclusion that...
Another right to the jaw, another left, another right, and still another right, and still another. . . . The 30,000 spectators shrieked to have the fight stopped. They had gone to Madison Square Garden's Long Island Bowl prepared to see a lively boxing match between 28-year-old Welterweight Champion Barney Ross, who had never been knocked out in ten years of prizefighting, and Challenger Henry Armstrong, 25-year-old Negro, who had knocked out 35 of his 37 opponents in the past 18 months. But they were not prepared to see one of the most brutal beatings...
...Carrel is 65 this month. He will leave soon to spend the summer on his island, as he does each year. Vigorous in mind and body, he has a definite program of experimental work in front of him. Colonel Lindbergh also has vast projects on which to work...
Operetta is no longer what it used to be. But last month Los Angeles launched a swank season of operetta revivals, and similar festivals have been scheduled for this summer in Louisville, Cleveland, St. Louis, as well as in Manhattan's Randall's Island and Long Island's Jones Beach. Most important of these festivals, that of the 20-year-old St. Louis Municipal Theater Association, opened last week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener...