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...week proclaimed: "Vote for Kerr Scott . . . [He] has aided our cause of nonsegregation . . . A friend of the Negro." In North Carolina the handbills were obviously no help at all to William Kerr Scott, 58, tobacco-chewing ex-governor running for the Senate seat to which little-known Attorney Alton Asa Lennon was appointed last July. Sure enough, it turned out, the handbills came from Lennon's supporters. Kerr Scott denounced the trick, swore his devotion to segregation. At week's end he won the Democratic primary anyway, beating Lennon and five other candidates...
Director of the meet Asa Bushnell has announced that a Bulova photo-timer will be used for the meet. It will probably be the final judge in the 100 yard dash, a toss-up among Yale's Hank Thresher, last year's winner; Harvard's Pete Dow; Penn's Alan Kline and John Haines; and Cornell's Larry Lattomus, where the meet record of 9.7 may be broken...
Roger Bannister, the only man to break the four-minute mile, will definitely not run in the special Heptagonal mile Saturday, Asa Bushnell, Heptagonal Games director, said last night...
Mile-record holder Roger Bannister will arrive in New York this morning and Asa Bushnell, Heptagonal Games director, said last night he would do everything possible to persuade the British star to run against Josy Barthel at Soldiers Field Saturday...
...added that "at least a tentative offer" had been made to the University by the Association. This supports an earlier report that such an offer had been proposed. Asa Bushnell, eastern head of the NCAA denied earlier that the Association had even considered handling the Harvard-Yale game...