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...Bureau's activities against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...
...that was precisely what had happened. Entered in four events, Owens had withdrawn from the 200-metre dash and 200-metre low hurdles to give all his attention to the 100-metre dash and the broad jump. A 20-year-old Negro sophomore of Temple University named Eulace Peacock had beaten him in both...
...race, in which Owens was not second but third, a stride behind Negro Ralph Metcalfe, was run in 10.2 sec., which would have been a world's record except for a soft following breeze. In the broad jump Peacock cleared 26 ft. 3 in., ? in. better than the currently accepted world's record and ¾ in. better than Owens' best last week, but 5¼ in. short of the record Owens set last...
Latest addition to the group of star Negro athletes, Eulace Peacock, like Owens, gave some indication of his abilities as a schoolboy when he won the National pentathlon in 1933. This spring Peacock did little except win the 100-metre dash and broad jump against comparatively mediocre competition at the Penn Relays. Last week was the first time he had jumped 26 ft. Son of a Union, N. J. tar tester, a competent but not brilliant student, Peacock runs without Metcalfe's finishing drive or Owens' smoothness, but with higher knee action than either. After his demonstration last week...
When, two days later, Peacock beat Owens again in a 100-metre invitation race at Crystal Beach, Ont., track experts found another alibi for Owens' defeat in the possibility that he was preoccupied. Fortnight ago he was reported engaged to one Quincella Nickerson of Los Angeles. Last week, the night before his second defeat by Peacock, Owens hurried to a preacher, married a Cleveland beauty-parlor maid named Minnie Ruth Solomon, entrained for Buffalo alone after promising to bring her a ring when he returned. His explanation of the Nickerson episode: "We were at a party and Miss Nickerson asked...