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certificate number 250 4. Jesse Owens, gold medals of.

After the fan fairs of the Olympic opening comes the most amazing performance by America's

Black Streak Jesse Owens in the 100 meters.

The world's most superb runner makes the others look as if they're walking,

as he wins the final and equals the world's record time.

This and his later victory in the long jump

may well be the athletic performances of the century.

I like this new sort of card catalog way of coming up with omnibus entries.

Right, we should do it more, more commas.

Gold medals of. We did a listener survey and it turned

out what people wanted was more commas in the episode titles. Here here but no colons.

Oh so much so tired of colons. No I do not want a colon in an episode title.

Two days ago in the omnibus entry, the hero of Camperdown, we talked about the silver medal that was awarded to Jack Crawford, Naval Hero, that he

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