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...mile Boston Marathon each year on Patriots' Day* have a variety of motives. At least one 200-pounder runs it to reduce. Stylianos Kyriakides ran it last week because he is a Greek...
...went out through the ship's side and burst over the water. But the Zeke itself crashed on the after half of the carrier's deck, crowded with 34 loaded planes, ready to go. That kindled a raging fire. Then a Judy (dive bomber) dropped a 500-pounder through the flight deck, and crashed into the base of the island structure. The Bunker Hill's fight for life...
...good breaks seem to come to him, but he works hard at his jobs. At West Point he boned for the air service, graduated 240th in his 1923 class of 261, made the air grade by reason of his superb physical condition (he is a lithe 165-pounder), became one of the Army's crack attack pilots and instructors. He met his wife at a West Point hop. They have a son, 16, who wants to go to the Academy, and a daughter...
...Pounder. The outstanding contrabassoonist in the U.S. is a short, dignified Neapolitan named Roberto Sensale, of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Sensale first aspired to the cello. But when he applied for a scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Naples, the only opening was a course in bassoon playing. In 1922 he joined the Philharmonic as a bassoonist. Fifteen years later, at the death of the Philharmonic's veteran contrabassoonist, a stately Anglo-German named William Conrad, Sensale moved down an octave to take his place...
Each day for the past four years the pretty 6 ft. 160-pounder, who learned her swimming at the Crystal Plunge Club, has done from two to four miles in the water. When she stepped to the pool's edge for the Pacific 880-yd. championship last month, the announcer predicted a new U.S. record. Then a soldier emerged from the crowd, handed Ann Curtis a florist's box and grinned. Said he: "Forget the American record. Go for the world's record." So she lowered by seven and a half seconds the world mark...