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...private train with his secretary, told the engineer to "open her up wide." The Harriman Special steamed into Manhattan with a coast-to-coast record of 71 hr. 27 min. Last week Railroader Harriman's 28-year-old transcontinental record was at last smashed and the smasher was none other than Mr. Harriman's lean and able son William Averell...
...Among them: Ernest Orlando Lawrence, University of California atom-smasher (TIME, July 3); Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey, discoverer of heavy hydrogen (TIME, July 3); Walter Edward Dandy, Johns Hopkins pathologist (TIME, Jan. 8); Otto Struve, University of Chicago astronomer (TIME...
...evangelists find their circles narrowing, embracing smaller & smaller towns. Yet they keep on the job. Next month, with the evangelical season about over, most of them will congregate in Winona Lake, Ind. for their annual meeting. Lou Hill will be there. No shouter, no chair-smasher, he has considerable reputation. On the Winona Lake platform he will pinch-hit for the most famed evangelist of them all, old-time Billy Sunday...
Such a faux pas was impossible last week because the Penhoet Shipyards, sagacious builders of the superliner, had provided an automatic bottle-smasher, needing only to be tripped by Mme Lebrun. The christening bottle was a monster, a triple magnum holding six quarts, "Largest Champagne Bottle in the World...
...Majesty the Empress a Satsuma. Last week Japanese, always inclined to read the present from the past, discussed the new Cabinet and the current Japanese crisis in terms of the 31-year-old Emperor's career, recalled that he has always been in his quiet way a precedent smasher and that the first major precedent he smashed was to marry for love outside the strict circle of Japan's Five Eligible Families...