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...University of Washington crew, by two lengths: a 2,000-meter varsity race against California (second) and University of California at Los Angeles; at Long Beach...
Late one afternoon last week a sleek grey taxicab purred up to the Army Building in downtown Manhattan and out of it stepped a youth named Fiore Rizzo. Out also stepped three other young men. The taxi meter registered 65?. The four passengers had only 50? between them...
...groaning in the road where he had been thrown from the running board of a car hit by another. Bending over, Robertson saw that the man was William Arthur Carr, the greatest trackman Robertson had ever trained, who last year broke the world's record for the 400-meter run in the Olympics when he ran Benjamin Bangs Eastman into the ground (TIME, Aug. 15). Coach Robertson lifted Carr in his arms, carried him to his own car, drove him to a hospital. Doctors found Carr's pelvis and both ankles fractured, his track career finished...
...artistically well done in parts, is marred by his overlooking some of the fundamentals of photography. While a large part of the greatness of this film rests on the clever use of unusual and striking pictorial effects, its greatest weakness lies in Edward Tisse's carelessness with his exposure meter in straight photography...
...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...