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Excerpt from Nurmi's article...
...Nurmi's Heart...
...wish to inform you of an error which occurred in your most reliable magazine. In TIME of Nov. 16 your People column stated that Paavo Nurmi's heart was three times normal size...
...enclosing a clipping, first of a series of twelve appearing in the Evening Bulletin written by Paavo Nurmi himself. He states: "The sensational news about my heart having been enlarged three times its normal size is pure bosh." I am enclosing the clipping...
...this year's Olympic 1,500-metre run should be Gene Venzke, 23-year-old graduate this spring from the Pottstown, Pa., High School. Last winter Venzke, who used to run to work in a Reading, Pa., steel mill, ran an indoor mile in 4:10, breaking Nurmi's record by 2 sec. Another world record breaker is George Spitz, Jr., 20-year-old sophomore at New York University. At a Boston meet last winter he jumped 6 ft. 8½ in. in the eccentric manner which he acquired practicing at home, in Flushing, L. I. Almost certain...