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Handsome, hulking Norman Ross was a great Olympic swimmer, a World War flier, later managed athletic tourists like Tilden, Nurmi, reported for the Chicago Journal. Now he is grey, 43, and made $25,000 last year as a Chicago radio character known to WMAQ's listeners as Uncle Normie. He has five programs on the air, the main one being an early-risers' hour for Chicago & North Western Railway. For this Uncle Normie has three alarm clocks, timed to go off one after another starting...
...world's distance-running nonpareil. Five times last summer, in his native Finland, he had broken world's records at distances ranging from two miles to 10,000 meters (a little over six miles)-"unbreakable" marks once held by his idol, coach and traveling companion, famed Paavo Nurmi...
...Maki, loping along with hands held low like a cross-country runner-chesty, short-legged Greg Rice showing that he had as much sisu (fighting spirit) as any Finn. Mincing along in his pony gait, he stuck to Maki's heels, moving forward when Maki (coached by Tutor Nurmi, standing stop watch in hand in the infield) moved forward. For 31 laps the Notre Damer and the Finn were so close together that the Miraculous Medal on Rice's chest practically beat a tattoo on Maki's back...
...drive was too cumbersome for U. S. restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
...Bespectacled, 24-year-old Charles Fenske: the Wanamaker Mile; in 4 min., 7.4 sec., second fastest indoor mile on record; outrunning Old Iron Legs Glenn Cunningham by three yards; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Among the 16,000 onlookers was famed Finn Paavo Nurmi (see p. 38), whose 4:12 mile on the same Garden boards set a world's record in 1925. Present world's record: Cunningham...