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These include metropolitan Los Angeles, Pasadena, Glendale, Santa Monica, Pomona, Riverdale and Long Beach, to mention only...
...Harvard eight was a totally different from that which defeated Yale over the four mile course earlier in the season, for it consisted entirely of Junior Varsity and Freshman oarsmen. The crimson had earlier beaten the University of California at Los Angeles to qualify for the finals. The Harvard boating; Coxswain, Bissell; Stroke, Drury; 7, Swayze; 6, Robertson; 5, Pierce; 4, Beane; 3, Atherton; 2, Whipple; Bow, Nickerson...
...never flown; but he will listen to anything that might mean scoring against the Tribune. He snapped at the idea. The Tribune caught wind of the deal, decided to stage a meet of its own without Henderson who, meanwhile, hurried west to sell the regular National Air Races to Los Angeles...
Exactly who infringed on whose prior date is a subject of bitter words. But when the Tribune applied to the N. A. A. for sanction for its own meet on July 1-4, the N. A. A. refused, revealed that those dates were reserved for Los Angeles. Worse, the N. A. A. had also sanctioned the Daily News' "International Air Races" for Sept. 1-4. Outraged, the Tribune declared it would run its own meet without sanction. That brought forth an N. A. A. ultimatum that any pilot taking part in an unsanctioned meet would be barred from sanctioned...
...with silver "T"-and was off. Beating the rising sun across the Alleghenies, Pilot Turner came down at Columbus for fuel and nearly lost his mind when it took him 20 minutes to rouse a field attendant. On & on he streaked, touching earth thrice again for fuel, whipping over Los Angeles' Municipal Airport just as the opening parade was getting under way. Practiced showman that he is, Turner, the hometown boy, could not have timed his triumphant entry more dramatically. The crowds in the stands (48,000) went wild with delight as he kicked his ship...