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...Gehrig who continued his string of consecutive baseball games played with the New York Yankees to 1,808 in eleven years, making 49 home runs in 1936, helping win another World Series and being again voted "most valuable player in the American League." Black Man of the Year was Sprinter Jesse Owens. His Olympic record-championships in three individual events, one team event-has been equaled only by red-skinned Jim Thorpe in 1912 and stamps him Sport's Man of the Year...
...unique as Sprinter Owens, Writer Margaret Mitchell uncorked in 1936 the first first-novel ever to sell a million copies in six months, Gone With The Wind (TIME, July 6). Animal of the Year was the Baby Giant Panda whose mistress calls...
Bobby Walthour Sr., Songwriter Harry Dacre dedicated Daisy Bell ("A Bicycle Built for Two") at the time of their elope ment. Al Crossley is a stocky Bostonian chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour...
...afternoon. Among them are Stave Brennan, huge weight man. Others are out for fall sports, including Rod Daughters, who is expected to be one of the foremost broad jumpers this winter and next spring and who will also take up the javelin, as well as Joe Johanson, a sprinter who is playing Soccer...
Fortnight after he shocked well-wishing Ohio Democrats by plumping for Republican Nominee Landon (TIME, Sept. 14), Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens was cornered at the home of a Manhattan police lieutenant, muttered: "I made the statement [endorsing Landon] all right, but what I do in the voting booth may be another matter. Almost everyone I have talked to has told me I was foolish and ought to retract. ... I am too young to know anything about politics...