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...Runner Newton...
Congratulations, because so far as I am aware your magazine (TIME, Aug. 4), is the first in America to give full credit to that wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years...
...anent how some Indians who lived in a certain altitude near Albuquerque, N. M. had a penchant for long distance running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered 623 mi., 1,230 yd. in six days, the longest distance ever covered...
...Republicans were Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch and Governor Myers Y. Cooper, both Drys. Democrats nominated for the Senate over four Drys or weaslers Robert Johns Bulkley, 49, Cleveland attorney, forthright Wet, onetime (1911-15) Congressman. Nominee Bulkley helped carry Cleveland for Smith in 1928, was supported this year by Newton Diehl Baker, Scripps-Howard newspapers, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. The McCulloch-Bulkley campaign will be a clear-cut Wet-&-Dry contest. To George White, who as chairman of the Democratic National Committee managed the 1920 Cox campaign for President, went the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Nominee White...
They recalled that Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, had said: "Why, I wouldn't hesitate a minute to make MacArthur Chief of Staff notwithstanding his youth. And I predict he will be. . . ." President Hoover last week commented: "There are several very eminent generals who rank General MacArthur, but none of them could serve more than a year and a half of the full term...