Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fair superlatives, rumbling throughout the nation's Press for many a month, were nearing crescendo last week. Burton Holmes, famed traveloger, was hired as the national barker to make nightly 15-min. talks over an NBC network. Daytimes Lecturer Holmes, also the Fair's cinematographer, watched a miniature Hollywood spring up where, through a glass partition, fairgoers will see real cinemas filmed & recorded on a 60-ft. stage. Excerpt from one of the Holmes Fair talks...
...William Feldhusen, Stapleton, N. Y. garage mechanic, in his Class C outboard motorboat Miss Staten Island: the sixth annual 132¼ mi. Albany-to-New York race; in 3 hr. 15 min. 22 sec. Weeks beforehand, Feldhusen familiarized himself with the course-over which he had raced four times-by getting a job as deckhand on a river liner. More than half his time allowance-21 min.-was wasted when magneto trouble delayed him at the start. He overtook Cab Walier of Syracuse a mile from the end, finished 100 yards ahead, with severe bruises and cuts on his left...
...opened one safe from which was recovered ?15,000 in gold. Another dive, he related, had provided an experience he would not care to repeat. He and a companion were caught alongside the jagged wreckage by a strong tide. He was helpless in the dark green water for 40 min. Undertow bashed him against sharp steel, so dented his duralumin suit that twelve stitches had to be taken in his side when he was rescued an hour later. His hand was mangled. His hair had turned white...
Senior 150-pound eights: Won by First Varsity 160-pound crew, stroked by A. M. Brown, Jr. '34; Second Varsity 160-pound crew stroked by M. E. Johnston, Jr. '35, second: First 160-pound Freshman crew, stroked by L. V. Eaton '36, third. Time: 7 min., 14 sec. for Henley distance...
Junior 160-pound eights: Won by Third Varsity 160-pound crew, stroked by P. W. Jopling '35; Second 150-pound Freshman crew, stroked by Charles Wiggins, 3rd '86, second. Time: 6 min., 12 sec. for 1 mile distance...