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...into the lead at the start of the 440-yd. race. Passing the baton with precision, No. 2 (Beverly Rockhold) and No. 3 (Charles Gruneisen) held the lead. At the final touch-off Texas' anchor-man (Harvey Wallender) had a five-yard start over Temple's Eulace Peacock. Fifteen yards from the finish Negro Peacock suddenly leaped into the air, broke his stride, hopscotched over the line in agony with a pulled muscle. But the Texans deserved their victory. Time was 0:41.1, a half-second better than the meet record. Next day the same foursome, together since...
...GOLDEN PEACOCK-Gertrude Atherton -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An entertaining account of intrigue and adventure among the ruling cliques of Augustan Rome. The story, told by Pomponia, irrepressible ward of the poet Horace, manages to be more convincing than many a modern yarn...
When they arrived the bird had flown to the roof of a nearby undertaking establishment where he spread an iridescent tail, fan-fashion, to show his pursuers he was a peacock not a vulture. He remained there until a policeman reached the roof, then took wing, flapped his way to the Hotel Wyndham, paused until his pursuers were in roping distance, flew away once more...
Traffic halted on Fifth Avenue, sleepy heads appeared from swank hotel windows as the peacock soared thrice around the gilded rooster atop the Heckscher Building, then to a window ledge on the seventeenth floor of the Hotel Plaza. There, as raucous cries arose from the Central Park Bird Sanctuary, he took off again, landing finally in the sanctuary beside four squawking peahens which had been widowed fortnight before...
Unfortunately, when peacock-proud Donor Hales first announced his Trophy, he offered it to the Rex, then holder of the transatlantic speed record, before he was ready to deliver it. Scarcely had the Italian Line accepted when the Normandie set a new record. To get around this development Harold Hales decreed that his trophy should be held by each consecutive winner for three months. The Italian Line displayed the $4,000 mass of encrusted silver in various places, finally brought it to Manhattan, put it in the window of their Fifth Avenue ticket office. Sweet to French hearts...