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Judging by the record of prize rookies, he had about a 50-50 chance of making good. In 1924, the papers were full of the Athletics' Paul Strand, who cost them $75,000 and didn't last the season; in 1940, it was the Athletics' Benny McCoy, now no longer in the major leagues; in 1941, it was the Cubs' "Mad Russian" Lou Novikoff, who has since gone back to the Pacific Coast League where he came from. There had also been publicized rookies who fared better: 1926's Mel Ott, 1937's Bobby...
...nineties, when hansoms jingled along the streets of London and every City clerk wore a silk hat, John was picking pockets in the Strand. King Edward came to the throne, and motors began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...
...weather that is bad enough to strand suburbanites here in the New York City area no longer concerns us as much as it did when TIME was very young and its editorial staff was small. Then, a major crisis in transportation could disrupt the copy for an entire issue. OldTIMErs also like to recall the days when they worked in an old office building on East 40th Street. No other tenant worked there over the weekend, so in winter there was no heat. They made out, somehow, despite the fact that it was impossible to run a typewriter with mittens...
...Antonio, it was 94° in the shade. Lennart Strand, "Hägg's Rabbit," who had come over from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...
...halfway point, warmed up at last, Strand let out. His white kangaroo-skin shoes seeming scarcely to touch the ground, he swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...