Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clyde Ormsby, Colorado steelworker, removed his false teeth just after the starting gun, gave them to a highway patrolman. Gordon Mace of Estes Park, greased from head to toe, collapsed. John Sutak, onetime Colorado College footballer, sandwiched between signs advertising "Sutak's Peanuts," sprinted ahead of the field, dropped out from exhaustion after two miles. An ambulance followed the procession, picked up those who fell. For those who survived, barrels of water-placed a mile apart-served as combination drinking troughs and bathing pools...
Towards his petty criminals John McIntyre shows benevolent amusement. Boys, he implies, will be boys. Sam was just a good-looking, friendly kid selling pop in a ball park until Art, who knew his way around, took him aside and showed him a few angles. Then he went up fast. He acquired a few attendants: Perry and Cork and a sinister character from Scranton named Max. He talked to all the concessionaires in the city and. because of his friendly way, they were glad to use the brand of pop he pushed. He talked to the barbers. He put short...
...Englanders, the second largest crowd ever to witness a horse race in the U. S. gathered to watch a loudly ballyhooed meeting of War Admiral and Seabiscuit, two of the seven entries in the $50,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. Three thousand miles away, in brand-new Hollywood Park at Inglewood, 50,000 Californians gathered to watch a highly touted race, for a $50,000 purse, between Herbert M. Woolf's Lawrin (Kentucky Derby winner) and William du Font's Dauber (Preakness winner) to settle the "American three-year-old championship...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, basking in his prize-ring fame, has given his race big ideas. When the idol of the Negroes, who has grossed well over a million dollars in the past three years, took up riding-in-the-park as a pastime, the colored upper crust of Detroit. Chicago and Cleveland followed suit, bought expensive saddle horses. Last week Joe Louis persuaded his wealthy friends to ship their horses to Detroit. Except for the fact that there were only six events and 16 horses (two of them Bing Crosby and McDonald's Choice, belonging to Sponsor Louis...
Died. Frederick William Vanderbilt, 82, oldest surviving member of the family, only surviving son of William Henry Vanderbilt, grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; after a week's illness; in Hyde Park, N. Y. An unassuming philanthropist, he possessed the twin talents of most Vanderbilts for railroading and yachting, was a director of 22 railroads, sailed his ships on the seven seas. Once he landed on the rocks off the coast of Colombia, was rescued with difficulty by a United Fruit liner...