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...give the statistics myself," snapped Mr. Ford. "The boys come first. . . . What did you say, Geoffrey?" Fair visitors found all last year's good non-commercial exhibits repeated, some new ones added. Among the new commercials were John R. Thompson Co. (restaurants), with a big pier into the Lagoon on which there was free dancing; Standard Oil, with a big free animal show; Swift & Co., which had hired the Chicago Symphony to play every day for ten weeks. One of the difficulties about Fair-going last year was that a visitor had to do his long-distance tramping with...
...Hall of Science. At the Alaskan cabin he chatted with Musher "Slim" Williams, who drove a dogteam from Alaska to Chicago. "Mr. Hoover likes dogs," said Mrs. Hoover. "It's hard to get him away when he starts discussing them." As the party sped over the Fair lagoon. Citizen Hoover asked: "Are there any fish in it?1" At the Radio & Communications Building next day he joined a group listening to free long-distance telephone calls. Miss Ruth W. Herst of Atlantic City was talking to a friend in Philadelphia. Suddenly he heard...
...makes i^ turns before reaching the stake or so that it makes if turns. The 71 men and ten women who lined up in Chicago last week for the World's Championship Horseshoe Pitching Tournament were about evenly divided. In twelve courts on the boardwalk overlooking the north lagoon at A Century of Progress, they pitched into boxes six feet square, filled with blue clay. In the qualifying rounds-high score for 100 shoes, with three points for ringers, one for a pitch within six inches of the stake-all but six women and 24 men were eliminated. Next...
...drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after midnight. We never know when one of them will take a notion to fall in the lagoon...
...socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish first and pay $21.52, in Chicago. ¶Ralph Flannagan, 15, of Miami: the National A. A. U. outdoor mile swimming race held in the north lagoon of the Century of Progress, Chicago, in 21:12½, thus breaking the U. S. record (21:27) held by Cinematic Buster Crabbe. At the same meet, Leonard Spence of the New York Athletic Club lowered his time for the 440-yd. breast stroke event...