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Skiing. Swede Artur Larsson nosed out three fellow-Scandinavians in the 18-kilometre ski-marathon. Oddbjorn Hagen of Norway won the combination 18-kilometre race and jump. In the ski jump, watched by a crowd of 130,000, Norway's stumpy little Birger Ruud averaged 245 ft. for his two jumps, kept the title he won at Lake Placid four years...
...Anthony's Monastery of the Capuchin Friars at Marathon, Wis. last week, a wise and white-haired monk named Rev. Theophilus Riesinger went about his daily orisons and meditations, indifferent to the fact that he was being widely publicized among U. S. Catholics as a potent and mystic exorcist of demons. Publicizers were the Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic Register of Denver, whose 300,000 subscribers last fortnight read the following story condensed from a pamphlet called Begone Satan...
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...City's Harlem, white Promoter-Preacher-Spiritualist Don Platt used an old candy store for a church and got three Negroes robed in white cotton over their street clothes to go into a doze on three cots set up before an improvised altar. He called it a "trance marathon." invited newshawks to ask the subjects what they saw in the spirit world. Subject John Epps reported that "George Washington says the New Deal is all right except for so much taxin' of the people. He's in favor of changin' the Constitution in favor...
...race for a $25,000 side bet. So far no one has bothered to accept. He uses a strange 76-to-the-minute stroke which causes him to be called "the Italian windmill." Thick and loquacious, Swimmer Gambi celebrated his victory by going to Montreal for another marathon swim this week. Then he plans a trip to Kentucky to buy more trotters before he goes home to accept his commission as an infantry lieutenant...