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TIME erred in stating that the Queen Mary's promenade deck is 570 yd. around. Cunard White Star figures that approximately four laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1936 | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

In the two-mile race, a filler on the program, Lash took the lead in the first lap, set a blistering pace of 62.9 for the quarter. When he turned the mile in 4:26.9, faster than Nurmi's first mile in either of his records, the crowd glued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Race in the Rain | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

For those familiar with the popular literature of spiritualism, what Researcher Garland has to tell will be nothing new. He and his fellow-researchers did what they could to cramp the mediums' style, by tying them to their chairs, tacking their skirts to the floor, putting rustly newspapers on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aged Agnostic | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

best of luck to track team hayes and crawford lost schmidt hit by taxi green and manager bryant running two laps apiece love

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

No sooner had Cinemactor Pat O'Brien cracked a pistol to send off 15 teams of riders than these hopes were granted. Partners Gustav Kilian & Heinz Vopel, over whose bunk flew the old German flag lest "non-Aryans" be annoyed, made their Garden debut by bumping soundly, crashing heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spills | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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