25 YEARS AGO
The Globe and Mail reported that a nuclear bone scan on Steve Fonyo's sore leg showed that the one-legged runner was dealing with a stress fracture, not cancer. Confirmation of the less-serious impediment meant the Journey of Lives runner, who lost his left leg to bone marrow cancer seven years earlier, could continue his cross-country trek to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society
50 YEARS AGO
The Globe and Mail reported that President Dwight Eisenhower described U.S. military might as an "indestructible force of incalculable power." He assured the free world that, through this power, "all of us can stand resolute and unafraid, confident in America's might as an anchor of free world security." A Toronto man who was found dead chained to the bed in his apartment, wearing a rubber diving suit and an army gas mask, was thought by police to have been the victim of an unsuccessful Houdini-like escape experiment. The International Ice Hockey Federation rejected Sweden's protest of its losing game with Canada three days earlier at the Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. "It was a matter of judgment by the referees and you cannot change an official's call on a play,' said J.F. (Bunny) Ahearne, British president of the IHIF. Sweden, after losing 5-2, had filed a letter of protest charging that the international rules were not observed in the rough-and-tumble game.
100 YEARS AGO
The Globe reported that a meeting in Longueuil, Que., showed a strong sentiment against any action by Canada toward providing for Imperial naval defence. There were serious riots in Philadelphia, growing out of a strike of streetcar men. A fierce battle was fought in Nicaragua in which Gen. Vasquez, leader of the government forces, was defeated. Seven Italian counterfeiters were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 15 to 30 years in New York.