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...Jesse Owens won four events and set three world's records in a single afternoon in what experts agreed was the most amazing display of versatility in track & field history. Thereafter, the consensus was that for Owens to lose to anyone this year in either of his two best specialties???100-yd. dash and broad jump ?was unlikely. For him to lose in both was almost unthinkable. For him to lose in both to the same man was entirely out of the question. At Lincoln, Neb. last week, the 15,000 spectators at the national championship meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Negroes in Nebraska | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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