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...hour left. After averaging his time for the two runs, American Automobile Association officials announced the result as 299.875 m.p.h. Disgusted at having missed his objective by an eyelash, Driver Campbell said he would try again next morning. Four hours later, he was told that a bungling timer had made an error in arithmetic and that his correct speed was 301.337. Said Sir Malcolm: "The news comes somewhat flat but I am glad to hear it. . . . I feel that the Bluebird has made her last flight...
...Keith Spalding Brown, who holds the world's indoor pole-vaulting record, was outsoared by Southern California's William Graber in a vault-off. Sam Allen of Oklahoma Baptist came nearest to setting a world mark. Over the 120-yd. high hurdles two reserve and one regular timer caught him at 14.1 sec., a tenth of a second better than the record. Unfortunately for Allen, the other two regular timers averaged...
...have one thing in his favor, aside from his recognized experience, since as the only old timer still left at Soldiers Field he ought to be indispensable to Harlow as the source of the "low down on the veterans who have been playing on the squad the past two years...
...pardon even Una Merkel's Southern accent at the University this week, because there are two other actors gracing the asbestos panel that more than make up for the not-too-beautiful cigarette girl. The first of these redeeming personalities is an old timer, just about as old as they come in point of service, none other than Harold Lloyd in "The Cat's Paw," a production adapted from a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson's modern counterpart in honesty, Clarence Buddington Kelland. The other propitiatory offering is a newcomer to the screen, but one on whom the Playgoer would...
...Georgians last week were predicting that the money would be raised, the Harris monument erected in time for his bedridden 81-year-old widow to see it. Sure to see it were Joel Harris' children: Mrs. Edwin Camp, wife of the Atlanta Journal's sports writer "Old Timer"; Joel Jr., president of Atlanta's Rotary Club; Lucien, in the insurance business; Evelyn, public relations counsel for Southern Bell Telephone Co.; and Julian, advertising manager of the Atlanta Constitution...