Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bunched a stride behind him, Bonthron last of the five. While Eastman and Keller of Pittsburgh thought they were fighting for the lead, Bonthron took the outside lane by the Stadium wall and ran past the field to win by four yards. ¶ The night before the meet, High Jumper George Spitz dropped into a Boston cafeteria, asked for a piece of pie. Said the counterman: "Say, do you think you ought to eat pie, with you jumping tomorrow?" Jumper Spitz ate no pie, won the high jump next day with a new intercollegiate record...
...heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became a showman, developed an aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad in pink tights, perched on the wing. About that time he won medals for an astonishing overwater flight to Catalina Island 28 mi. offshore. Few years later he took Mary Pickford up for her first flight...
...notion that a person who falls from a great height dies before striking the ground, was long ago exploded. But there remains room for curiosity about how it feels to fall for miles & miles. Last week new testimony came from one John Tranum, professional 'chute jumper in England, who fell farther than any man had ever fallen and lived to tell the tale. Jumper Tranum stepped out of a Royal Air Force plane about 4 mi. above Salisbury Plain. One-two-three miles he plummeted toward the earth's vague green saucer. With one hand he manipulated...
...Eastman, Stanford's world's record quarter-miler; Keith Brown, Yale jumper who last week helped beat Harvard for the Big Three championship; Bill Bonthron, Princeton's promising half-miler who wears such handsome clothes that they have twice been stolen from his locker at track meets: these are three of the track athletes who will perform in this week's Intercollegiate Championships at Cambridge, Mass, which as usual Stanford or Southern California is favored to win. They and the other entrants in the Intercollegiates last week had reason to consider with awe another athlete...
...Parachute Jumper" concerns a smuggling ring. Although the plot is inane, and although the dialogue is filled with Minsky wisecracks, it may amuse the non-critical. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the noble youngster who will fly licuor across the Canadian border, but when he finds that he has been unknowingly carrying dope in the plane, he thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist...