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...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...
...Angeles, 2. Crewman Samuel Drury, Harvard University, 3. Shotputter J. M. Baillieu, Magdalen College (England), 4. Tackle Fil Sanford, University of Richmond, 5. Shotputter Jack Torrance, Louisiana State University, 6. Gymnast Rehor, University of Illinois, 7. Pugilist Paul Hartnek, Creighton University, 8. Highjumper A. Waley, Eton College (England), 9. Speedster Ivan Fuqua, Indiana University, 10. Halfback Harry Patch, Villanova College, and 11. Ballcarrier...
...Along a blocked-off concrete boulevard in the outskirts of Los Angeles raced two motorcycle policemen, followed by an Auburn speedster with a streamlined windshield fastened to the rear. Close behind was a bearded man on a bicycle, his tremendous legs pumping like pistons. Zipping along in the vacuum of the Auburn's wake, the bearded bicyclist hit 75, 80, 85 m. p. h. The motorcycle officers dropped out at 85. Auburn and bicyclist shot over the finish line at 90 m. p. h., were doing 100 m. p. h. before they slowed down. An A. A. A. official...