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Peering into the long white trench of the Mt. Van Hoevenberg run, steep and tortuous as a market graph, 20,000 spectators at the more perilous races for four man teams were hopefully horrified by anticipating casualties like those in the pre-Olympic trials. The races, repeatedly postponed by bad weather, were finally run without mishap on a slow track. A U. S. sled steered by William Fiske, U. S.-born Londoner who won the Olympic championship in 1928, won with 7:53.68 for four runs, with another U. S. team second...
...When trench warfare forced the French generals to revise their Fochian formula, the real grind of modern war began. These were dark times for Foch. His son and son-in-law had been killed. He himself fell out of favor, was retired by Joffre from command of the Northern Group of Armies. Not until the throes of disaster led the Allies to appoint him their supreme commander could his faith burn openly where all could see and feel. "Materially, I do not see that victory is possible. Morally I am certain that we shall gain it." The Author. Born...
...games was over $1,000,000 of which $200,000 came from Lake Placid, $500,000 from the State of New York. Improvements on the bob-sled run cost $225,000. Designer Stanislaus Zentzytski, imported from Berlin, built into the side of Van Hoevenberg Mountain a deep stone-lined trench, a mile and a half long, with 22 minor curves and three major ones, on which Olympic bobsleds, which weigh 500 Ibs. and cost $700, average 40 miles an hour...
...inclined to take at a fast clip more than once. The Manchester Guardian recalled a precedent of the plan, a bill introduced into the House of Lords by Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, requiring the local authorities of every English village to dig a shallow trench across the road at the town limits...
...Brooklyn home James Dennis Wyber, 14. played soldier, used the roof as a fort, used his room as an arsenal for the storage of a rifle, an airgun, ammunition, a trench helmet, bayonets. One day James Dennis Wyber missed some things, suspected an enemy foraging party. To his roof-fort he climbed, waited until Alexander Annunciato, 9, began to climb to the enemy fortress-a garage roof. Soldier Annunciato got three companions, prepared to take the Wyber fort. Soldier Wyber fired a warning shot, hit Soldier Annunciato in the back, wounded him severely...