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...metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner at Los Angeles in 1932. The U. S. had Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani and Glenn Cunningham, all three good enough to beat Bill Bonthron, who held the world's record for 1,500 metres, in the Olympic tryouts last month. Sweden had dependable Eric Ny and Canada had Negro Phil Edwards...
...height of 14 ft., 6½ in. By the time the crowd leaned back again on Palmer Stadium's uncomfortable cement seats, the 1,.500-metre race was over. First, in the mediocre time of 3:54.2, was Kansas' Glenn Cunningham. Second was another Kansan, Archie San Romani. Venzke and Bonthron trailed...
...golf course at Lake Placid, N. Y., last week, Rosa Melba Ponselle laughed and chattered from the high spirits of her summer out-of-doors. Playing the round with her, was her singing coach, Romano Romani. He watched her grow serious and silent to tee off. His eyes were on the ball...
Finance Minister Count Volpi entered the Chamber and crossed with quick nervous strides to the Ministerial Bench, where Premier Mussolini awaited him. The Premier shook his hand with vigor. The Deputies rose to their feet and cheered him. From the public galleries as many cives Romani as could squeeze in roared their approval of the Volpi-Churchill Italo-British debt settlement (TIME, Feb. 8, COMMONWEALTH...
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet-philosopher, arrived in Milan to tell the Italians that Europe is troubled with a lack of love, that peace is something spiritual that grows in the heart and cannot be forced by command. At Turin his arrival was anticipated with much joy, but the hopeful Romani were bitterly disappointed ; for their municipal authorities (which of course means Premier Benito Mussolini) declared that Tagore's doctrines smacked unwholesomely of Communism...