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Last week the nation's First Republican City remained Republican, but only after a Democrat-turned-Republican and a Republican-turned-Democrat had given it one of the wildest and weirdest mayoralty election campaigns in its history...
...over it had set three records for events of its kind. It was the coldest anyone could remember. It drew such huge crowds-close to 50,000 for each game-that players got a bigger bonus than ever before: $6,831 for each of the winners. It produced the weirdest alibi ever offered by a losing team: "demoralization," brought on by abuse from an umpire...
...Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days in a row and the U. S. sports public was pestered with the details of one of the weirdest contests ever held, that of Frankie Parker v. Frankie Parker's forehand...
...best steeplechase jockey, took the lead. In the last mile huge Pelorus Jack, who caused several bad spills when he swung across the track in last year's Grand National, was coming up fast. Pelorus Jack fell at the last fence and then came one of the weirdest finishes in Grand National History. Kellsboro Jack, owned by Mrs. Frederick Ambrose Clark of Westbury (L. I.) and Cooperstown, N. Y. galloped strongly on to win, three lengths ahead of Really True who, owned by Major Noel Furlong and ridden by his son, beat out Slater by a neck for second...
...scale. In Boston well-groomed Sergei Koussevitzky, in Manhattan electric Arturo Toscanini, in Philadelphia blond-mopped Leopold Stokowski raised their batons over the country's leading orchestras. As usual, and contrary to advance notices which promised conventional music for the troublous times (TIME, Sept. 12), Stokowski produced the weirdest sounds. Four-fifths of his first audience walked out early when he not only played Werner Josten's Jungle but repeated...