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...hernia that has kept him out of the services, he has won 57 consecutive races (the great Paavo Nurmi won only 50), has whittled down the indoor records for two and three miles to 8:51.1 and 13:45.7 respectively. Last week, in his first race since pulling a tendon in his heel three months ago, Rice beat his nearest rival over two miles by 55 yards. But his time was not unusual...
...Ambassador William C. Bullitt, 51, limped off a plane in Seattle with firm-gaited Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, 68. Friends' explanation: Bullitt had pulled a tendon showing Knox how to keep...
Yesterday a new type of football hero earned his free ticket to Valhalla. Phil Alexander '42, double-flip expert and cheerleader-extraordinary, pulled a tendon while doing a "today's acrobatic special...
Though shorter and less dangerous than the famed Maryland Hunt Cup race, the Iroquois (three miles, 18 jumps) turned out to be tough. Galsac, the favorite, bowed a tendon on the next-to-last jump. Another horse broke a leg, was destroyed. Winner was Rockmayne, a bay gelding racing in the colors of Louisville's Barbara Bullitt, cousin of Ambassador William Bullitt. His time: 5 min., 41 2/5 sec. Her prize: $1,000 and a leg on an old silver cup made in 1820 for the Earl of Coventry...
...cruiser and destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...