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...lusty new land like Australia, many a citizen is as violently playful as an old fashioned Wild West cowboy. Last week there were Wild West doings when Premier John Thomas Lang of New South Wales tried to open the world's largest single-arch bridge, a mighty mass of steel flung across Sydney harbor...
...fact that winter sports are more fun to practice than to watch, by intermittent snow, rain, thaw. Main competitive features of the games were: i) the surprising defeat of the Norwegians, who won most points in 1924 and 1928, in the skating races and the 18-kilometre lang lauf (ski race); 2) the amazing incompetence of the Japanese, who had come to the Olympics at their own expense to become better acquainted with winter sports. The Japanese fancy skaters, who had studied this sport in books, found it hard to keep their footing. Japanese speed skaters were outdistanced; two Japanese...
...running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...
...mansions of filmdom are still haunted. Of "ghosties and ghoulies and a lang-leggity beasties that go bump "in the night" there is no surcease...
...jargon of the platform . . . insensible to the dignity of the English liturgy. . . . Nothing could be better calculated to induce a spirit of national humility than the thought that such prayers could be authorized for use in public worship by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York." Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, 67, Archbishop of Canterbury, is, as his prayer suggested, a practical as well as a pious man. He calmly observed that the Depression prayer had merely been authorized. It had not been officially ap pointed for general use. Of the fact that Dean William Foxley Norris had an nounced that...