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...Melbourne, after Australian Miler John Landy had again come within a second of the world record with a 4:02.4 clocking, Finnish Champion Denis Johansson gasped: "Landy is magnificent. I have never seen anything like it. On a first-class cinder track and with good opposition he could run a 3:55 mile." Landy promptly announced that he will make a U.S. and European tour this spring and summer once he gets firm invitations...
Moving Day. In El Paso, an entire cinder-block wall, complete with aluminum lettering, was stolen from a city swimming pool...
Coach Bruce Munre and his squad are forsaking the poorly-lit confines of Briggs Cage two weeks earlier than usual this year and will practice for the time being in the cinder parking lot behind the stadium...
Alerted by the tunamen, Dr. Dietz flew down in an Air Force weather-watching B29. The volcano was still going strong, but probably not as strong as when it was younger. It has built a cinder cone some 800 ft. above the former level of the rocky island. Every five or ten minutes it shoots up tons of gas and ash, then lies quiet for five or ten minutes. Between explosions, Dr. Dietz from his airplane took a deep look into the crater. He estimated that the temperature of the erupting throat is about 2,000° F. He also...
...helped Hecht to found the Chicago Literary Times, an irreverent journal that described Chicago as "the jazz baby-the reeking, cinder-ridden, joyous Baptist stronghold . . . the chewing-gum center of the world, the bleating, slant-headed rendezvous of half-witted newspapers, sociopaths and pants makers." He headed east to Greenwich Village in the 1920s...