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First runner to cross the finish line of the Boston Marathon last week was 85-year-old Peter Foley. Loping along Commonwealth Avenue, his arms hanging loosely at his sides, his pink-striped trunks ballooning in the April breeze, gnome-like

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Iron Legs | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Strapped onto a massive chair in a room gradually filling with gas fumes, a husky, 20-year-old Negro in white trunks coughed, clenched his fists, expanded his chest and fiercely cried: "Joe Louis!" Such was the death two years ago of Allen Foster, first criminal to be executed in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Preview | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

While bombs and shell fire were making rubble out of Luis Quintanilla's murals and his studio near University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Profile of War | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Died. James A. Ten Eyck, 86, since 1903 rowing coach at Syracuse University; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami, Fla. A professional oarsman whose first sliding seat was greased leather sewn on his trunks, Ten Eyck once rowed his wife around Manhattan, at 65 rowed from Syracuse to Albany to prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Despite Soviet denials, Warsaw papers reported last week the arrival in Warsaw of six agents of the Soviet Secret Police who thoroughly combed the Soviet Embassy, departed for Moscow with six trunks full of supposed evidence against the vanished former Soviet Ambassador to Poland, Jakov K. Davtyan. An exceptional Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pressing and Desperate | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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