Word: speedsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected, Captain Hamity, halfback Sol Sherman, and Wasem were the enemy standouts. Speedster John Davenport was a disappointment. This group tried every sort of "sleeper" play; once there were two "sleepers" on each side and another lying down way over on the sidelines. In other words, there were only six men who were not "sleepers." The Chicagoans even tried this trick stuff in their own end zone, where they spent much of the afternoon...
Ever since he read a newspaper editorial on the small speedster some time ago, Dr. Irving Langmuir, General Electric Co.'s Nobel Prizewinning research ace, has doubted that it could fly anywhere near as fast as it was billed. Recently, with characteristic thoroughness. Dr. Langmuir set out to debunk the botfly; last week he published his findings in Science...
...eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just to take him on a personal tour. A Manhattan theatre was said to be clamoring for the dusky speedster's services at $10,000 a week. Hotfoot to a radio telephone trotted Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. "Don't do anything till you see me!" implored the world's greatest tapdancer. When the Queen Mary docked, "Bojangles" took Jesse up to Harlem, lined up a bevy of Lenox...
This easy victory evoked a chorus of criticism from U. S. pilots, who credited a rumor that the French Government had spent $1,000,000 in developing Detroyat's speedster. "It just isn't fair," snapped Roscoe Turner, whose injuries kept him from competing, "for a foreign government to trim a bunch of little guys who build airplanes in their backyard...
...last cent in Mister Mulligan. A dark, lanky, unostentatious man of 31, he contrasts strongly with swashbuckling, peacocky Colonel Turner, who last week thirsted for revenge, waited impatiently for the final spectacular Thompson Trophy Race in which he hoped to regain his laurels as No. 1 U. S. speedster...