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...record for 100 metres in a trial heat (10.2 sec.). On the second day, he won the final in world-record time (10.3). On the third, he won the broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with a turn. Finally, selected for the U. S. 400-metre relay team, he helped it equal the world's record in a trial heat, break it winning the final...
...Delhi, India, a snake attempted to board a ferryboat, caused frightened passengers to dash to the other side, the boat to capsize, 50 persons to drown...
Games. Wildly excited crowds watched four track & field events run off the first two days. Winners: U. S. Negro Jesse Owens (100-metre dash); U. S. Negro Cornelius Johnson (high jump); Germany's Hans Woellke (shot put); Finland's Ilmari Salminen (10,000-metre...
Benito Mussolini used them to scare Stanley Baldwin, who received disquieting news that in the Mediterranean Fascist Flea Boats were running circles around Britain's most potent dreadnoughts, obviously able to dash in for quick, close, suicidal work with torpedoes had Il Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered...
...Ohio State's bullet-legged Negro Jesse Owens equaled records in the 100-metre dash, the broad jump. ¶ Indiana University's slim, robot-running Donald Lash (TIME, June 22), having clinched a place on the U. S. Olympic team the evening before with a record-breaking 10,000-metre run, set still another in the 5,000-metre championship. ¶ The University of Southern California's big-boned Harold Smallwood nosed out California's much-touted quarter-milers, Negroes James LuValle and Archie Williams, in the 400-metre race. ¶ Negro Cornelius Johnson who arrived...