Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood at the door jotting down, together with the great names of U. S. newspaperdom, other publishing names variously distinguished: J. W. Green of the Buffalo Express, who claimed he had attended more A. N. P. A. conventions than any other man alive (the reporter failed to note the record number); Zell Hart Deming of the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle, "only publisher in the U. S. who does her own fruitcanning"; the ample Frank Rostock, who gripped in his hand, to help him fight down a craving for chocolate creams, a medal presented him by Albert of Belgium as thanks...
President Phillips based his address on preventive medicine and public health education. He said in part: "The House of Delegates [the Association's executive body] is on record as favoring every measure of public health education, and the better class of publications have given their cooperation by publishing only material of this character that has received medical approval. Periodic physical examination of the healthy as well as the sick is a preventive measure strongly indorsed by the medical profession in the general program of health preservation." Practically every one of the more than 300 papers read at the convention...
...come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar and then behind Stenroos, ahead of the straggling pack of 85 others-out through Natick, around through Wellesley, back through Auburndale, up and down through...
College athletes last week congregated in two places?westerners in Des Moines, Ia., for the annual Drake Relay Carnival; easterners on Franklin Field, Philadelphia, for the annual Penn Relays. The latter meet was notable for no world's records. Yale took two championships? the half-mile varsity and one-mile freshman relays. Columbia won the two-mile varsity relay. Anthony J. Plansky, herculean Georgetown Universityite, retained his decathlon championship with a new meet record of 7,169.16 points for the ten events?100-meter dash, shot-put, high jump, broad jump, 400-meter run, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole...
...mark and fled to a tape 100 yards away in what the second-splitting watches said was 9.5 sec.?a magical tenth of a second less than 100 yards have ever officially been run. But there had been a brusque north wind at Locke's back. The record was doubtful. The other national feature of the meet: obliging Pole-vaulter Charles Hoff of Norway soared over the bar at 13 ft. 9% in.?a new U. S. record...