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...smash the accepted world's record of 14 ft. 6½ in. held by Oregon's George Varoff. At the Stanford-U.S.C. dual meet they soared 14 ft. 8 ½in. Three weeks later at the Pacific Coast Conference meet they vaulted 14 ft. 11 in., quit then simply because the crossbar could not be extended higher. As host for the N.C.A.A. meet last week, the University of California erected new standards 15 ft. 6 in. high. Somewhat psychic, Sefton and Meadows both correctly guessed before the meet that their four-year doubling streak might not last...
...Just how we are to get back to self-reliance and quit demanding so much of the Government will test the wits and ingenuity of all of us. Habits are not easily broken, and we have gotten into the habit of expecting everything of the Federal Government. The longer we put off correcting this, the more dangerous it will get and the more difficult to meet...
Cally (Margaret Lindsay) was a nurse who had taken care of Red when he was hurt once. In Chicago, he always looked her up. Cally taught Slim to dance. Talking to Red was no use, but Cally tried to get Slim to quit line work. Slim turned down Cally's plea. He strung along with...
...Dartmouth, just turned 21, Harry Ford Jr. cranked a pump one summer in a Long Island filling station near the Sinclair estate, spent his last vacation as a deckhand on a Sinclair tanker. But that was not what Oilman Sinclair referred to in his wire. Harry Jr. wanted to quit college, go to work, so last week as a surprise Mr. Sinclair had him elected a director, member of the executive and finance committees of Consolidated Oil Corp...
White wives are scarce in the Koyukuk. Of the two in Wiseman one has quit her husband, gone off to the creeks with a prospector. Eskimo wives are not frequently faithful. But the Arctic nights are long and a wife can be mighty useful. Putting on his Chachaqua "outside" clothes, leaving Alaska for the first time in 29 years, Martin Slisco, a U. S. citizen since 1929, went back to his childhood home in Jugoslavia last Christmas. He saw his mother for the first time in 40 years and went with her to the church, bride-hunting. He looked over...