Word: lb
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Born. To John A. Roosevelt, 24, young est son of Franklin Roosevelt, and Anne Clark Roosevelt, 23: a 7-lb., g-oz. son, their first (the President's tenth grand child); in Boston. Name: Haven. Father John celebrated by taking the day off from the Winchester branch of William Filene's Sons, Boston clothing store...
Alfred C. Blozis, son of a New Jersey laborer, stands 6 ft. 6, weighs 250 lb., is a perfectly coordinated strong man. During last winter's indoor track season, Blozis, a Georgetown University sophomore, cracked a world's record almost every time he picked up the iron grapefruit. In six indoor meets, he put the 16-lb. shot 36 times. Nineteen times he bettered the world's record (53 ft. 1½ in.) set by Louisiana's famed 300-lb. Jack Torrance. A half-dozen times he chalked up 55 ft., once...
Before the summer is over, track fans expect Blozis to smash Torrance's world's outdoor mark for 16 lb. (57 ft. 1 in.) as well. Six weeks ago, in the Penn Relay Carnival, he started out creditably with a 55 ft. 5⅜ in. toss that broke the meet record by almost three feet. Last week, in the Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet, held in a downpour at Harvard's Stadium, the Georgetown giant, skidding around in ankle-deep mud, heaved the slippery cannonball 53 ft. 6⅜ in., later...
Born. To Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan, 33, who on July 17, 1938 took off solo from Brooklyn, headed (said he) for Los Angeles, alighted in Ireland, and Elizabeth Marvin Corrigan, 33: a 6-lb. son, their first; in Los Angeles...
...senior singles class, P. D. Wilson Jr. '43 won with Julian Simmons '42 trailing him over the line. In junior singles E. S. Gilchrist '41 led C. A. Herter Jr. '42 to the wave of the finish flag, as well as winning the 155-lb. singles from Franklyn King Jr. '41. Novice singles was won by Landis Gorges '1GSD, B. P. Anderson '41 2nd. Compromise class by H. R. Shepley Jr. '41, W. O. Apthorp '43 second; and wherry class by E. R. Bason...