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...Reggie McNamara, "Iron Man" of the sport, the Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan last week was his tooth. A friendly, mild-mannered man with a deep scar in his right cheek, McNamara is the son of a New South Wales sheep-rancher. He and his 13 brothers and sisters all learned to ride on the same bicycle. Reggie alone took the sport seriously. He shot kangaroos, sold their skins for money to enter local races, arrived in the U. S. in 1913. By 1920 he was the greatest rider in the world, with records, most of them still unbroken...
...final hours of the 55th International Six-Day Bicycle Race in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week it was necessary to watch only two of the ten teams whirling around the pine-board saucer. They were the red-jerseyed team of Peden & Letourner, and the red-white-&blue clad Hill & Debaets...
...gained the same number of laps over the rest of the pack. William John ("Torchy'') Peden, 27, a rangy Canadian with a flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around...
President James" Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), expounded a "recovery code" for colleges to his students, with a six-day week and a minimum 40 hr. of work...
Sitting in his cell, fasting is Gandhi's only tool but it is potent. Last September a six-day fast nearly killed him but forced a settlement between the caste Hindus and the Untouchables, which was accepted in principle by the British Government (TIME, Oct. 3). In December a 36-hour fast got another prisoner, a high-caste Brahmin, the right to do Untouchables' work as penance. For his new fast, he asked for the world's prayers, commanded that he be let alone in his cell...