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...Tommy Roberts, a prize cavalry horse in the light hunter (jumping) class. U. S. Army qualifications for such a horse : must be sound, five years old, 15 hands high. Distance: 120 yds., Tommy Roberts to jump high hurdles. Towns to jump low hurdles. Because a horse has a long stride, they were to use only five hurdles...
Last week, before 2,000 spectators, Hurdler Towns and Tommy Roberts (ridden by Private Marvin Henry) raced. Hurdler Towns ran off to a long, early lead. Between the fourth and fifth hurdles he stepped in a hole, was thrown off stride. Tommy Roberts came on rapidly. Over the last hurdle Towns squeezed ahead to break the tape, but mainly because Tommy Roberts tried to jump it. The result: Hurdler Towns by a nose in 13 sec. flat. Said he: "I'll take two-footed racers in the future...
Just as Mussolini had got into his stride he caught sight of two gigantic signs that Sicilians had erected for his pleasure. Blazoned on them in white were the words: "Long live our volunteers in Spain." He stopped short, angrily ordered them removed. "I am making a speech of peace," he thundered, "and such signs are inappropriate...
...Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned out just so and the one doubles match became pivotal. Paired as always with husky Gene Mako, Budge did not hit his stride until von Cramm & Henkel had won one set and run the second to 5-3. Then Budge & Mako smashed through Henkel's service, went on to take the set 7-5, the next 8-6 and the last 6-4, after Germany...
...elevators in Radio City's 69-story Rockefeller Tower. These smooth performers differ from Otis elevators in the use of photo-electric cells instead of the usual electrical contacts for braking and for leveling off at each floor. In en- gineering innovations Westinghouse has kept in stride with Otis by matching Otis' double-decker elevators in Manhattan's Cities Service Building with a system for running two elevators in the same shaft. But Otis' great advantage lies in its maintenance operations, which during Depression reputedly accounted for two-thirds of its total business...