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>Veteran Miler Gene Venzke, 31; the first important indoor mile of the season; in 4:13.1, against the pick of U. S. milers: Glenn Cunningham, Chuck Fenske, Wayne Rideout, Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali; in Boston. Eight years ago Venzke ran a 4:10 in Manhattan for a world'...
There to hear him were almost every U. S. Senator** and Congressman, his Cabinet, uniformly (with the exception of Madam Secretary Perkins) clothed in turtle coats and striped grey trousers, and in the gallery children straddling laps, surrounded by mittens, rubbers, coats: Diana Hopkins, daughter of Secretary of Commerce Hopkins...
Bosworth dug out a three yard lead in the backstroke 100, but Waldron ended up his breastroke century just far enough behind Potter to enable Indian free-styler Wilhelmy to get into the water before Lonnie Stowell started. Thereafter, the Crimson anchorman trailed for three laps, coming up with the...
The Picture. No great shakes as literature, the novel had been dropped on the floor by most literary critics as soon as it dropped in their laps. They thought its love story a bore, its history sectional, its length pretentious, its writing as drab as a bolt of butternut shoddy...
But when the time came to toe the mark, the Alumni found, alas, that they did not have in their number four men capable of swimming two tortuous laps, Accordingly, so that no alumnus would return to his wife or graduate school or employer too fatigued for his own good...