Untrained U S Athletes Win Nine Events at Athens Games
In 1896 Athens Olympics ten U S athletes competed without training or coaches. They entered twelve events and captured nine wins. Harvard's J B Connolly won the hop, step and jump, the only time he ever tried it, becoming the first Olympic champion in 1 504 years.
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Fame and duty press Ernie Pyle on furlough duties
Ernie Pyle recalls personal life on a Pacific Navy assignment and four months of American furlough. He describes That Girl and his Indiana visits, his father and Aunt Mary at Dana, and the strain of public attention. He notes the balance of fame, obligation, and private life, ending with joining Lee Miller in California.
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The Revolution in Values and Our Economic Duty
Excerpted talk argues the war reveals a revolution in values touching money politics and education. It warns debt of 300 billion and urges steadfastness to restore soundness through leadership, realism, and restraint against immediacy in public life.
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Five Books Read While Home from War Years
The narrator recalls reading only five books in four months while home, listing titles including A Walk in the Run Lost Island Can Do Cannery Row and Daybreak for Our Carrier. He notes attempts to reread All Quiet on the Western Front and praises the five selections.
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Silk Patchwork Quilt Craze from Old Ties and Silk
An old fashion Craze piece describes making colorful crazy patch quilts from silk scraps and old ties. It notes how Victorian cravats inspired rich fabrics, suggests GI Joe leftovers for patchwork ends, and offers Book 2 directions with diagrams for embroidery stitches, available postpaid for 15 cents.
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