ATHLETICS.
A WORLD'S RECORD. (Received March 28th, 12.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 26.
At Berkeley, California, Charles Paddock, a member of the University of Southern California, and probably America's premier short distance runner, broke the world's record for 220 yards, covering the distance in SO 4-seec.
Art experts in Berlin are undecided with respect to the genuineness of the landscape ascribed to Rembrandt, "After the Thunderstorm," which was allejged to have been stolen from a private owner in Hamburg in January, and was supposed to have "been shipped to the United States on the steamer Mongolia on the, following day. The title of the painting is not listed in the Rembrandt catalogues available in Berlin. The owners of the painting have offered a reward of 50,000 marks for its recovery, and the.Hamburg police have cabled to the authorities in foreign ports to be on the lookout.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 10
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