Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year the Amateur Athletic Union awards the Sullivan Medal to the U. S. athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Last week the A. A. U. announced its 1933 medalist. He is Kansas University's crack middle-distance runner, Glenn Cunningham, who at the age of 8 was so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again. To develop his scarred legs he took up running, even learned to play football. But because he developed into such an expert trackman coaches forbade him to play...
...Sullivan committee found that Cunningham "proved himself a good sportsman in running two races in every meet and sometimes three against the leading European middle-distance champions. He could have refused and would have been justified in doing so. . . ." Of Bonthron : "He has been the fighting spirit of the Princeton track team. He gave up an opportunity to compete in individual events to run as a member of the university relay team in order to enhance the chances of his teammates winning. A fine example of unselfishness and team spirit...
...United States since 1860 must, through its very character, remain an effort dedicated to the artful stimulation of nostalgia. Perhaps that virus, bolstered as it is by the camera and by Mr. Allen's informal chatter, will prove itself not yet exhausted by the thorough ministrations of Mr. Mark Sullivan and the self-styled humorous magazines. One is inclined to feel however that such a work is, now at least, better suited to testing the sentimental depths of an old order, than to stirring up bright interest...
...chortling complacency, he must grant the editors of "The American Procession" due credit for skillful application of the diluted stimulus. The photographs, arranged in rough chronological order, are so selected as to probe the most various corners of subconscious memory. There is a full length profile of John L. Sullivan, arms limply extended, legs swathed in knee-buttoned tights, mustachios waxed and contemptuous, stomach distended,--for such was the masculine style. There is the "tennis girl of the eighties", racquet posed delicately behind the neck, feet swathed in high heeled boots, dress distended by the bustle, or as Mr. Allen...
...denied that Mr. Morley gives a picture of the American scene which might well be intensely interesting a hundred years hence. But it seems doubtful that any one will be reading his books even twenty years hence, and at present Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Menken giving life to observation by an injection of thought, reduce Mr. Morley's work to the status of momentarily enjoyable small talk by a nice, whimsical man with an engaging manner and not much else...