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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank N. D. Buchman, founder and leader of the Oxford Group, left here tonight on tour of the Oslo Pact States (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Holland and Belgium) for a series of conferences with national leaders...
...Back in 1913, a young undertaker named John A. Maxwell played golf with two companions on the Raritan Valley Country Club course, Somerville, N. J. As they approached the tenth green, a thunderstorm broke. A forked tongue of lightning licked the fairway, kicked all three players on to their backs, ripped one golf bag down the middle. None of the players was injured. Last week, on the same fairway of the same golf course, in the corresponding week of the corresponding month, at the same time of day (about 3:15 p.m.) Golfer Maxwell was struck down and killed...
...Back in 1919, a young racehorse who was destined to be great, Man o' War, was led to the barrier for the annual Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. When the starting signal was given, Man o' War was facing in the opposite direction from his rivals. That was the only race Man o' War ever lost. The horse which beat him was named Upset. Since that day race fans have thought of the Sanford Memorial as the race in which Man o' War was licked by bad luck...
...Halicarnassus (c. 353 B.C.). The favorite mausoleum of a generation ago resembled a Greek shrine; today's favorite more appropriately resembles a Frigidaire. But last week near Wilmington, Del., a family noted for its independence was about ready to move the remains of the late Alfred Irénée du Pont into a tomb of quite original design and princely size. One of the largest concrete and granite towers in the world, 210 feet high, with an eventual capacity of six Du Ponts, it was planned by A. I.'s architect son, Alfred Victor du Pont...
Once a year, in mid-August, the sleepy little village of Goshen, N. Y. becomes for a day the capital of the harness-racing world. There, along elm-shaded streets that were meant for its population of 4,000, 40,000 trotting-race enthusiasts, in carnival spirit, meander toward Good Time Track and the running of the Hambletonian, world's richest race for trotting horses...