Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sueo Ohe of Keio University with only five days to accustom himself to a board runway, indoor performing, New York City and new vaulting poles, smilingly hoisted himself through the din of the evening hours up over the rising crossbar until World Record Holder George Varoff of the University of Oregon (14 ft., 6½ in.), Olympic Champion Earle Meadows of Southern California (14 ft., 3¼ in.) and five other contestants had tumbled defeated into the sawdust landing pit. Ohe sailed easily over 14 ft. 3 in. for a new meet record. A jury of sportswriters voted...
...Herbert, a Negro employe of the New York Curb Exchange, whirled around in the Millrose 600 so rapidly that he left behind two national champions and the 800-metre Olympic champion, Negro John Woodruff of University of Pittsburgh. Catapulted into national publicity when one of them beat Don Lash, world record holder, in the second fastest outdoor two-mile race ever run in the U. S., at the Sugar Bowl Games at New Orleans last month, the arrival of the Rideout Twins for the northern winter track season sent researchers scurrying for data on identical twins in sport...
...sunspot cycle. Few years ago when many short-wave police radio stations were set up, the ranges were generally limited to 30 or 40 miles, since the signals escaped through the thin ionosphere into outer space. Now, with greater ion density in the upper air, messages for New York City police radio cars sometimes even carry across the Atlantic Ocean...
...music seemed at an end last April when little old Arturo Toscanini left the New York Philharmonic and went home to Italy (TIME, May 11). The most beloved conductor living, he had worked with the Philharmonic for eleven seasons, taught it to play as perfectly as any orchestra in the world. But, at 69, Toscanini found continuous performances too great a strain. Thereafter he planned to conduct only occasionally, only in Europe...
More sanguine than most, the New York Post's music critic, Samuel Chotzinoff, simply refused to believe Toscanini was through with the U. S. Chotzinoff for years has been a great friend of the maestro, is so devoted to him that many call him "Chotzinini." In Manhattan he is known for his pithy paragraphs, his skill as an accompanist, his desire to make music accessible to all. Recently Chotzinoff began to have long talks with David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Last month Critic Chotzinoff went on a mysterious "vacation," stopped in Milan at the house of his old friend...