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Sports pages this spring have been full of stories about how Cunningham's legs were burned in a school-house fire so badly that doctors did not expect him ever to walk again. When Bonthron was a child, he encountered a live wire while climbing in an apple tree. The result was a burn which left a large scar on his left leg. Like Venzke, who used to run to work every day for training, Bonthron goes everywhere on his own two feet. He owns no automobile, dislikes streetcars because "they stop at every corner." In racing against Cunningham...
...Frederick E, Williamson of the New York Central took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer," tottered. Arthur S, Tuttie, New York State engineer for Federal...
...thing by stopping a runaway horse in Central Park and saving a banker's lovely daughter. But all he gets out of that is the loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death the martyred hero of the fascist "Leather...
...making a clean sweep of the quartet of races that closed the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association championship last week. Harvard won a second leg on the MacMillan Cup. Dwight Fullerton, of the Beverly Yacht Club and Dedham, Mass., took two of the races; F. Stanton Deland '36 of Marblehead and Boston, and Michael Cudahy of Beverly and Chicago, captured one each...
Stooping to massage a leg muscle strained during his recent acrobatics, he said that he had started in the entertainment world in order to pay his way through law school, but finding that the two didn't mix, he stayed with his band. "Minnie the Moocher," "Zazu Zazz," and his latest "Hot-Cha-Zazz-Matazz-Zazz" are not solely his own creations, he modestly explained, but he and the boys work them out together. "Perhaps these pieces played by a less well-known orchestra would be a failure, for a reputation is necessary to present something out of the ordinary...