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...when the National A. A. U. championships were held in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, U. S. track fans were convinced at long last that Cunningham's crown had been knocked off, that Chuck Fenske was wearing it. For the sixth successive time this season, Fenske had outrun the country's top milers (including Cunningham), had twice equaled Cunningham's indoor record of 4:07.4, had snatched the national indoor championship (with a 4:08.8 mile...
...just a comic-strip nobody from an obscure planet called Krypton. Now, as almost every kid in the U. S. (and many a grownup) well knows, Superman is THE man to have around in a 1940 pinch. He can outswim a torpedo, outfly an airplane, outdistance a streamliner train, outrun a speeding automobile, punch his way through armor plate. Also he can get down to brass tacks as Clark Kent, reporter, write superscoops for his paper...
...refuel-evidently on their way to Montevideo. The 31,100-ton battleship Barham, and the French battleship Dunkergue-it and the Renown two of five Allied ships which can both outrun and outgun German pocket battleships-and the 10,000-ton cruiser Cumberland were rumored to be waiting just over the horizon...
...Pepsi-Cola's twelve-ounce bottles (Coca-Cola: six ounces) have done best in New York City. In its first full-page newspaper ads fortnight ago, Pepsi-Cola announced it had outsold "any other Cola drink in bottles" by more than 50% in the metropolitan district, had outrun, in fact, all the "Cola" drinks, of which there are some 35 in New York alone...
...seven years in which he has consistently outrun other milers, Glenn Cunningham has run a mile under 4:10 at least eleven times, has once (on Dartmouth's board track, year ago) unofficially beaten the world's record of 4:06.4 by 2 seconds. This consistent excellence makes him, in most sportswriters' opinions, "world's greatest miler." Announced last week was a meeting between Cunningham and Britisher Sydney Wooderson (holder of the world's record) next June 17 in Princeton's Palmer Stadium...