Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Sport: The Miracle of '32
If the organizers of the 1984 Olympics ever feel discouraged, worried about costs and the possibilities for confusion, let them take heart. Whatever befalls them between now and next July, whether act of man or nature, could scarcely be as bad as the troubles that bedeviled the promoters of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Yet that small band not only survived, it triumphed and made the Games of the X Olympiad profitable and one of history's best and most fondly remembered.
Everything was against them in that grim time. The entire world was staggering from the effects of the Depression, and many...
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