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...record; Barney Berlinger, Pennsylvania's all-around man; Herman Brix, blond Los Angeles giant who had won the shot-put championship three years in a row and won it again last week; Eddie Tolan, Michigan's stubby Negro, and many another runner who has not yet been outrun by renown. The red track in Lincoln's municipal stadium was fast and hard the first breezy day, when the junior champion-ships-for athletes who have never won a championship-were contested. The next afternoon rain made dark spots on the cinders. There were 10,000 spectators...
Like oldtime court jesters, newspaper colyumists are privileged-nay, obliged- to play horse with the serious news of the day. But just as the jester was in danger of having his head lopped off if his boldness should outrun his wit, so must the colyumist watch carefully lest he shock the Average Reader's sensibilities. Readers of Colyumist Harry Irving Phillips (''The Sun Dial") in the New York Sun one day last week wondered whether he had gone...
...outcome of the clash would, therefore, seem to depend entirely on the final event on the schedule, the mile relay. The Crimson quartet's fast time of three minutes 28 4-5 seconds in the Millrose Games in New York a short while ago should favor them to outrun the Indian baton-passers, but Coach Hillman has an array of fleet middle distance runners who are capable of throwing the point total in their favor...
John Jacob Raskob has been both bull and bear. His most bearish moment was on the eve of the bankers' convention (TIME, Oct. 15), when he observed that "security prices have far outrun demonstrated values." His most bullish moment was on the eve of his sailing for Europe last March, when he predicted new records for General Motors, observing that the stock should sell at 15 times its earnings, or $225 a share...
...opinion that security prices have so far outrun demonstrated values, earning power and dividend returns that a material readjustment is necessary before they will again be attractive to the prudent investor...