Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge team proved unusually well-balanced. Relying on both team "Presidents" (captains), Alan Pennington (Oxford) and Godfrey Brown (Cambridge), for double wins, the Britishers had unbeatable talent on the track except in the hurdles. In the field they boasted a Turk who could shot-put 49 ft., a high-jumper who could clear 6 ft. 3 in., and Frederick Richard Webster, first Briton ever to pole-vault 13 ft., who got-his vaulting tips by corresponding with U. S. experts. At Cambridge, Mass, last fortnight Oxford-Cambridge swept the flat races as anticipated, added a victory in the shot...
...cook up rebus contests for his Philadelphia Record and New York Post. In the Post building on Manhattan's West Street, Publishers Service has barnlike offices furnished principally with a good set of dictionaries. Genius of the place is lanky, sandy-haired Frederick Gregory Hartswick, a Yale high-jumper of the class of 1914 who made puzzles a profession, ran the puzzle page on the old New York World and has been getting out crossword puzzle books for Simon & Schuster since 1924. Mr. Hartswick, who joined Publishers Service a year ago, lives in Fanwood, N. J. with his wife...
...Cleveland, Joseph J. ("Flying Dutchman") Dunkel, professional parachute jumper who has made 2.226 'leaps from airplanes and balloons without injury, was hospitalized after tumbling off the end of a parked truck...
Vaulter Win Pettingell and jumper Bob Haydock trailed Elis Badman and Harding, the Blue high jumper barely clearing 6 feet 3 inches. Harding missed his three tries to set a record at 14 feet...
...habits of gangsters and the weakness of law enforcement, retells the stories of the Factor, Bremer, Urschel and Robinson kidnappings, the deaths of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. Best parts of American Agent are its thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...