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...eager is the Amateur Skating Union to make an impressive showing in international competition that they sent a half-dozen U. S. topnotchers abroad last winter to pick up experience. At the European-style Olympic tryouts last week the investment paid its first dividends. Although the No. 1 speed-skating event of the year had left the Oconomowocians cold, the American Olympic Committee announced that next year's team will be the best ever sent to the Olympics. During the week three new records were etched into U. S. skating history...
...over to congratulate the captain of the opposing team. For a man whose entire life is centered on his team, Hal Ulen took the defeat with an admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community may well be proud of. His thoughts in defeat did not consist of balancing the half-dozen if's of the meet, rather did he praise the men on his team who fought to the last for him and plan to build up for the future the men who failed him to some extent...
Safe as a county fair was aviation's winter meet, the All-American Air Maneuvers, at Miami last week. A half-dozen speed events went off like buggy-races. The ships that flew in them were not freakish rocket ships, but ordinary sport and businessmen's airplanes. At the finish at week's end, no open speed records had been broken, but no flier had been killed or maimed, no ship demolished. It was aviation's first big safe and sane get-together...
With a great deal of fruitful work behind him on animal pigmentation, on the physiology of reproduction, on the nature and functional basis of sex, and on bionomics,* Dr. Riddle ranks as one of the half-dozen top biologists of the U. S. He also knows more about the pituitary and its functions than anyone else in the U. S., with the possible exception of California's Evans...
...idea where all this material came from, claimed that servants of the consulate had done his bag-packing. Mr. Goodman's explanation was accepted at face value but, with the full approval of the British Foreign Office, Rightist police immediately began questioning servants, secretaries and messengers of a half-dozen British consulates in Rightist Spain. If they found the person who had tried to use Vice Consul Goodman as a pigeon to carry military secrets to the other side, they failed to announce it. But a general spy hunt was launched from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean...