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...chose as biographer Ray Stannard Baker, of Amherst, Mass. Mr. Maker, a man of 54, is the author of a number of books on public questions and (under the pen name of David Grayson) of a number of essays. After leaving the University of Michigan, he was connected with McClure's Syndicate and McClure's Magazine, served as an editor of the American Magazine. During the War he was attached to the State Department, and afterward served as Director of Publicity for the American Commission at the Paris Peace Conference. It was there that Baker -the spectacled, professional...
...first event was a mile race. Nurmi, a thin, blond man, wore a jersey of robin's egg blue, trunks of black. In his right hand, he carried the little watch by which he timed his stride. He disdained, at the start, the conventional crouch. Ray (Illinois A. C.) and Hahn (Boston A. A.) both got away from the pistol before him. Through the first lap, while his competitors jostled for position, Nurmi kept in the rear; when the others had settled into a file, he jogged into the lead. Higgins, onetime Columbia University star, passed...
Significance. Nurmi is 27 -an age at which few runners can race any more, at which none has ever broken records. Nurmi broke two. More than this, he defeated Ray and Ritola - his most potent rivals. More than this, he caused it to appear as if these men - both, beyond a doubt, among the world's swiftest runners - were novices and that he alone ran as a good runner should. Thus did this thin blond Finn alter, for those who watched, the standard by which they had been used to measure the speed of human legs...
Died. Mrs. Ray Frank, mother of Leo Frank, who (in 1915) was lynched by a Georgia mob; in Brooklyn...
...will begin at four minutes past 8 o'clock on the morning of January 24, and will be at its height at 15 minutes past 9 o'clock. One thing of great interest is to observe the peculiar images cast by the sun during the partial period. A ray of light through a knot hole, for instance, will cast a crescent shaped image on the floor instead of the ordinary round...