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...seconds. Hawes' placing ahead of Watkins came somewhat as a surprise to Harvard, inasmuch as it was expected that the latter would win the event. Kelly of Georgetown won the dash in 7 1-10 seconds, equalling the meet record made in 1923 by Harold Lever of Pennsylvania. Estes gained third honors in the one mile run, which was won by Carl Coan of Pennsylvania, Bullwinkle of City College of New York placing second. Coan set a new intercollegiate indoor record of 4 minutes 15 1-5 seconds. The former mark was 4 minutes 17 4-5 seconds...
...another thing to discuss. It was a new Durant line of sedans with a "Pullman attachment" as standard equipment. Owners of these new Durants will not have to get out of their cars when they wish to stretch themselves out full length. At the press of a little lever, the back of the front seat gives way, a "reclining couch" comes into being. Durant advertisements pointed out the many uses of this "roadside resting or sleeping room." It "makes traveling with children delightful," enables businessmen to "keep going as long and as far as they like," furnishes "a hotel wherever...
...days afterward, Buffalo Child Long Lance sat in a plane piloted by Parker ("Shorty") Cramer, onetime Arctic flying mate of Sir George Hubert Wilkins. When Pilot Cramer pulled a lever. Long Lance was dumped through the cabin floor into space with a parachute billowing over his head...
...great Trade Union Congress stamps a man as a comer. Moreover the widespread Transport Union of which Mr. Bevin is Secretary is one of the best vote getters in all Britain. Cor respondents saw in his leadership of 'Labor's reaction against "rationalization" last week a popular lever by which hefty Ernest Bevin may presently jack himself up to cabinet rank...
...Primary three months ago Mr. Pinchot won the nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where he had won 15,516 votes to Mr. Pinchot's 42,075. He charged that some 60,000 ballots there should be wiped out of the count because the Court of Common Pleas, to prevent fraud...