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Last week African blacks leaped up & down with excitement, British traders cheered and Scottish missionaries beamed broadly as a train tooted its whistle and chugged across the world's longest railroad bridge. Thus was railroad service inaugurated over the broad Zambesi River on a 33-span viaduct measuring more than two miles in length. The structure had taken two and a half years to build, had cost the Central African & Trans-Zambesi Railway Companies...
...Knowing as well as Promoter O'Brien that a victory for Lott & Stoefen would help the tour's gate receipts, Tilden & Vines suddenly became invincible, smashed through the next two sets, won the match 3-6, 14-16, 13-11, 8-6, 6-4. It was the longest professional tennis match on record, 14 games longer than one in which Vines nosed out Tilden in Los Angeles last year. Still fresh after it was over, Tilden and Vines repeated their victory in Philadelphia the next night and Washington the following night, lost in Pittsburgh night later. At singles...
Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif, the biggest crowd (85,000) packed a stadium decorated with bunches of flowers to watch the game between Stanford and Alabama. Alabama's Halfback Millard (''Dixie") Howell gained 273 yd. His longest run (67 yd.) made one Alabama touchdown while his phenomenally accurate passes, mostly to End Don Hutson, paved the way to two more. Swamped by three touchdowns and a field goal in the second quarter, Stanford marched bravely to a touchdown in the third but still had no defense for the Alabama passes that scored again in the last. Alabama...
Professor Pierce has also listened to other noises besides crickets', including the song of newly-hatched robins, which he reports to be longest at 15,000 vibrations per second, and the black pole warbler which emits sounds at about 15,000 per second. The ultimate object of this series of experiments is to study and classify the sounds in nature and if possible to determine whether or not they serve for communication...
...Manhattan, rival society newshawks combed morgues, thumbed notebooks, hounded social secretaries to see who could compile the longest list of 1934-35 débutantes. Out in front was Hearst's American which found 355 in Greater New York. To accompany his fat list Hearst Columnist Maury Henry Biddle Paul ("Cholly Knickerbocker") wrote an earnest, last-minute message, complete with his annual "Don't's," to the mothers of Park Avenue. Excerpts...