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...championships, who has unofficially surpassed the world's record for 100 yd. (9.5 sec.), who has not been beaten in four major meets this year; Patrick J. McDonald. 52-year-old, 350-lb. Manhattan policeman who handles a 35-lb. weight as though it were a toy balloon; Percy Beard, a 23-year-old instructor in engineering at Alabama Polytechnic Institute, whose long skinny legs are well suited to the high hurdles; Leo Lermond, New York Athletic Club miler, who got off to practice on the way to Lincoln every time the train stopped; Wilson Charles, Oneida Indian decathlon...
Presuming that by describing his Paris Herald as unprofitable, very costly, a rich man's toy, he would keep out competitors, Bennett ever emphasized his disbursements, never revealed his takings...
...Musical Toy Stage. Ray Lyman Wilbur, U. S. Secretary of the Interior who appointed a committee a year ago to investigate education by radio, disagreed with B. B. C.'s Director Reith. He said radio has "brought about ways in which the public can be entertained and also instructed which probably never would have evolved from the heads of the very best-intentioned government officials. . . . Time will de-jazz the radio and make it more literate and substantial. The musical toy stage of the radio has about passed...
...elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic canvass of politicians, the procession of truculent greybeards, through the Royal Palace, men who have been like deflated toy balloons under the Dictatorship, but are now distended again by the breath of power...
...annual prize (a watch) was awarded to one M. F. for some verses entitled "David, Aged Four." Christmas is a bitter day For mothers who are poor; The wistful eyes of children Are daggers to endure. . . . My purse is full of money, But I cannot buy a toy; Only a wreath of holly For the grave of my little boy. Well known to Tower readers are Colyumist Adams' hobbies and hates, which he sets forth each Saturday in a Pepys-style diary of the week. Hobbies are tennis, poker, pool, old songs, anagrams, Latin verse, his farm at Westport...