Saturday August 8, 1936

diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

Letter from Lenore – apt. is out of the question with her too. Heard Rozella Kropp (Latin) is married. Brought brown suit from Popular for Mary Jo.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today


Day 6 of the 1936 Olympic Games

The US men sweep the Decathalon

1 Glenn Morris 24 United States USA Gold 7,900 7.254 WR
2 Bob Clark 23 United States USA Silver 7,601 7.063
3 Jack Parker 20 United States USA Bronze 7,275 6.760
Mens 100 free prelim
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Ferenc Csik
 Hungary
Masanori Yusa
 Japan
Shigeo Arai
 Japan
400 m freestyle
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Jack Medica
 United States
Shunpei Uto
 Japan
Shozo Makino
 Japan
1500 m freestyle
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Noboru Terada
 Japan
Jack Medica
 United States
Shunpei Uto
 Japan
100 m backstroke
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Adolph Kiefer
 United States
Al Vande Weghe
 United States
Masaji Kiyokawa
 Japan
200 m breaststroke
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Tetsuo Hamuro
 Japan
Erwin Sietas
 Germany
Reizo Koike
 Japan
4×200 m freestyle relay
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 Japan (JPN)
Shigeo Arai
Shigeo Sugiura
Masaharu Taguchi
Masanori Yusa
 United States (USA)
Ralph Flanagan
John Macionis
Jack Medica
Paul Wolf
 Hungary (HUN)
Oszkár Abay-Nemes
Ferenc Csik
Ödön Gróf
Árpád Lengyel

 

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

The French government changed its policy on the Spanish Civil War again, announcing that it was closing its border and stopping all further shipments of arms to Spain

 

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