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...cadets poked the noses of machine guns from around splintered crags of the Alcázar, pressed the triggers and started a chug-chug of bullets most of which seemed to go low and catch the militia in the legs. As the Red charge broke and failed on the 59th day of the siege, its commander, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Barcelo, was carried off the field with a bullet in his leg, still crying with Spanish braggadocio: "Everything is going fine!" Explained one of his friends, Spanish Muralist Luis Quintanilla, Ernest Hemingway's good friend (TIME...
...rule against holding the tray with two hands was not enforced. When a plug-ugly protege of Promoter Dempsey dropped a handkerchief, 54 entrants from 15 Manhattan restaurants set off at a run from 59th street down Eighth Avenue to 50th street. Winner, a surly-looking Italian named Dominick Caccippio, got $125, a silver cup and the whiskey from his tray...
These remarks by Belgian Gerard Debaets explained why 100,000 customers trudged into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week to witness the 59th International Six-Day Bicycle Race. Not to be mesmerized by the whirring tires, not to cheer for representatives of their own race did goggle-eyed addicts stare hour after hour, night & day at the pine-board saucer. It was, for most of them, the hope of being startled by the impact of wheels, the slither of tangled bodies on the track...
Graduating from Harvard in 1878, Mr. Littauer returned to his birthplace and home at Gloversville, New York. Here he manufactured gloves until his election to Congress in 1896. He retained his seat for five terms, retiring voluntarily at the end of the 59th Congress...
These last week were the highlights of the 59th annual track meet of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America at Cambridge, Mass. After two mild, damp days on Harvard's Soldiers Field, officials added up the totals, found that the Eastern athletes had won eight of the 15 individual championships while Southern California's team, with 51 points, had piled up the biggest total...