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At 1924 Olympics, Lewiston's Bob Legendre leaped into history


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Robert Legendre, shown in 1919, was a star athlete at Georgetown University whose track and field career began in his native Lewiston, Maine.
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On the first day of competition at the Olympics in 1924, Lewiston native Bob Legendre took his spot behind a chalked line on the field of the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Paris.
He wore boxy white shorts and a T-shirt with number 246 written across it.
Two years after graduating from Georgetown University, Legendre looked down the cinder track to the spot 40 meters away where he would leap as far as possible into the sand beyond. ....

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Sure, it's hot out, but at least it's not like 1911


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A Bain News Service photograph of people sleeping outside at The Battery in New York City during a heat wave about 1911.
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It’s been sizzling lately, no question about it, but Maine has seen worse.
In 1911, in what may have been the worst weather crisis in the region’s history, a July heat wave that cooked the entire Eastern seaboard left Lewiston scorched, with factories shutting down and people collapsing.
“Old Sol started in to warm up the first day of July and he’s been busy ever since,” the Lewiston Evening Journal reported, adding that the days grew ever more scorching. ....

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