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...after eight events. Stanford's total went up as the field event results became final. After 13 events, the score was 42 to 42, with one more race to run. It was the 200-metre final. No Stanford sprinter had qualified and all Southern California's lean, blond, curly-headed Charley Parsons-son of Coach Dean Cromwell's college and teammate Charles B. Parsons-needed was a fifth place in the six-man race. The runners crouched at the start. The field spread going away from the mark and drove into the straightaway with Howard Jones...
...North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa to the lightship, one-half knot slower than the Europa's best average, but she had beaten her own Genoa-Ambrose record by 16 hours...
...descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...found power to plague his cast-off family and especially Jose. Jose found himself evicted from his farm; he moved elsewhere; the same thing threatened again. But then Senor Wilson stepped in and effectually removed the threat. In the banditry and guerrilla fighting that the late lean years brought Cuba, fat politico Marco went the way of all politicos, while Jose stayed on on his finca (property), minding his business, begetting children, improving his acres...
Mile run--Won by R. S. Playfair (H); second, L. C. Lean (H); third, I. H. Orr (H). Time...