Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane, a twin-motored Boeing, had left San Francisco at 5:30 that afternoon, streaked down the San Joaquin Valley at some 200 m.p.h. toward the first stop at Burbank. Aboard were two pilots, pretty Hostess Yvonne Trego, and nine passengers, including a member of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, an artist from Walt Disney's studio and young Edward Thomas Ford Jr., son of the vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides...
...where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash coming, for the ignition was turned off, preventing fire. Broken watches indicated that the crash occurred at 7:38. Three investigations immediately began hunting the cause with little hope of success. Pilot Blom was only five miles...
...come to regard it as a rare chance to make amends to decathloners for the neglect with which they are usually treated. The Sullivan award was inaugurated by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1930. Decathloner Barney Berlinger won it in 1931. Decathloner Jim Bausch won it in 1932. This "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish, then?" year, voting for the Sullivan award was closer than usual. Early returns made it look as if it would go to famed Jesse Owens, the triple Olympic champion Negro sprinter, who failed to win last year mainly because the fact that...
...computing his earlier points meant that he had set a new world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently returned to obscurity as anonymous announcer for National Broadcasting Co. in New York, Decathloner Morris was amazed last week when told that he had won. Said he: "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish then?" Said Jesse Owens in Havana, where, having just won a race against a horse (TIME, Jan. 4), he was preparing to try to better his own world's record for the broad jump: "I'm glad the best...
Last week $100,000 in unclaimed prizes were on hand when Police Commissioner James P. Allman suddenly announced that Bank Night drawings violated a city ordinance, arrested 16 theatre managers, warned 250 more to stop Bank Nights forthwith. Making their arrests during the distribution of prizes, police were roundly booed by Chicago cinema audiences. In one theatre, the winner of a $10 prize had it confiscated as evidence before he could grab...