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...Heavy Artillery are two categories that keep the august delegates at Geneva awake nights. The Canadian Army boasts still another subdivision: Medium Artillery. In St. John, N. B. last week a brigade of Medium Artillery was out in the bright May sunshine banging away a 21-gun feu de joie in honor of a great occasion: St. John's 150th Loyalist...
...degrees of men who have walked the earth the Vagabond is drawn most to those monks and minor canons who hid beneath their flowing robes (or displayed about their flowing bowls) a rare humor, boundless Joie de vivre, and a fine disdain for official authority...
Firemen, policemen and locomotive engineers are no longer treated in the cinema as heroes. Modern cinema depicts careers of more sophisticated daring, careers of ruffians, lawyers, filles de joie, doctors. Last year reporters were popular because they are considered dissolute and apt at repartee. This year, Broadway colyumists are even more popular for the same reasons. No fewer than three pictures about colyumists appeared last week, with more in prospect...
...Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine distance runner: a 10,000-metre run in 31 min. 26.6 sec.-1.8 sec. better than Joie Ray's U. S. record; in Manhattan. Paavo Nurmi's world record...
...Venzke run his first races when he was a 16-year-old Reading millworker and later trained him at the Hill School track, foresaw his exploits this year. In the Millrose games last month, Venzke broke the indoor record (4:12), jointly held by Paavo Nurmi and Joie Ray, by four-fifths of a second. A week later, at the New York Athletic Club meet, he ran the fastest indoor mile in history-4:10. The outdoor record is 4:091/5, held by Jules Ladoumegue of France, who would certainly have run against Venzke in the Olympics...