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...last week, with 100 passengers and 700 tons of whiskey, soap and paint, to re-open steamboat passenger service between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh (500 miles). Rivermen gave her an oldtime sendoff. A deck-sweep fired a cannon. Forty Negro roustabouts sang, "Gwineter wuk on a steamboat till I dies." Peacock proud, "Ma" Greene took a turn at the wheel, then settled down to sewing. Four days later the Gordon C. Greene splashed into Pittsburgh...
...last five years athletes like DeHart Hubbard, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe, Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock have made it apparent that Negroes can jump farther and run short distances faster than whites. Last week onetime Yale field Coach Albert McGall suggested a reason which sounded more likely than those usually proposed by his confreres: in Negroes, os calcis (heel bone) juts out farther at the back of the foot than it does in whites, gives them better leverage...
...break the world's record of 60 ft. 5½ in. His famed former teammate, Quarter-Miler Glenn Hardin, won the 400-metre hurdles, then ran anchor on the Louisiana State two-mile relay team that nosed out Army. Temple's spry little Negro Eulace Peacock took the 100-metre dash and the broad jump...
...20th Century Limited never knew has ridden for half a century, still rides the Orient Express. For every tycoon deposited in Chicago and for every cinemactress brought to Broadway by the New York Central's famed train, the Orient Express has carried its kings, its Kreugers, its peacock Balkan generals and as many spies as frontier guards can be bribed to pass between Europe proper and Asia improper on the musty, rattle-banging train de luxe. There are also German travelers, omnivorous, industrious and good at figuring out. as one did recently, that on the Orient Express substantially...
...nobler than the peacock and his train...