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...worth of architectural masterpieces like New York's famed $60,000,000 Triborough Bridge lose their means of support...
...Strongman Frank Berst of the New York Athletic Club: the weight-throwing championship of the Amateur Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record...
...automobile. Since there is sure to be less driving, if only to save rubber, top-notch municipal bonds secured by highway and tunnel tolls went down. Port of New York Authority (Holland & Lincoln Tunnels, George Washington Bridge) 33 last week dropped 5 points to 95; Triborough Bridge Authority 3¼s dropped 3 points to 95; Pennsylvania Turnpike 3¾s lost 4 points to 96. All were record lows...
...York City's five boroughs produced aluminum pieces by the hundred thousands. Biggest: a two-ton duralumin gate (damaged) from the Triborough Bridge. One of the smallest: an aluminum girdle, previously worn by an electric eel at the Aquarium...
...eyed, 180-lb. Alfred Diebolt, Colgate junior: the 440-yd. race of New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. track & field championships; in 46.9 sec., fastest quarter-mile in its 50-year history; at Triborough Stadium, New York City. Young Diebolt, son of a onetime Colgate track star, lost his right eye in an auto accident when...