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...dark-skinned giants, the Watusi have been known to jump 8 ft.; but they tower 8 ft. tall and take off from anthills nearly a foot high. Les Steers is just a fraction over 6 ft. tall, and never uses an anthill. Yet he has gone on inching near & nearer to 7 ft. Last week, four days before the National Collegiate championships, Steers jumped 6 ft. 11 in. at the Pacific Coast v. Big Ten track meet. One of these days, the experts are ready to admit, Steers may tie the Watusi...
...Marylebone Club playing teams from the Army, R.A.F., the Fire Brigade, etc. And at Newmarket, 70 miles from London, 50,000 Britons, disregarding the Government's "stay put" order, swarmed together for the second wartime running of the classic Derby-normally held at Epsom Downs, nearer London...
Critical September and October, when the railroads will face their traffic peak, drew a bit nearer last week. And the U.S. transportation system tried to prepare...
Obituaries gave his age as "around 82." But "old pals" suspected he must be nearer 95. At least 15 years ago his boss sent him to a Paris kidney specialist. Never, said the specialist, whistling in admiration, had he beheld such a perfectly preserved set of rognons in a man over...
...Yoshizawa at the Batavia conference table has been The Netherlands East Indies' genial, broad-faced, bespectacled Economics Minister Hubertus J. van Mook. As the weeks went by Minister van Mook knew very well that Japan's Army and Navy were slipping down the Indo-China coast, ever nearer the riches of the Indies. But he also knew that the Indies were becoming a nest of gun emplacements, barbed wire, trenches, that scores of U.S.-made bombers were being unloaded and assembled. And he knew that he had a very favorably disposed, if distant, neighbor named Franklin Delano Roosevelt...