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Harvard will be looking for victories in the dash, with Dewey Hickman, the pole vault with sophomore Jim Kleiger, and the broad-jump with Leon Sharpe...
Which hardly seems fair, since Toomey can broad-jump 25 ft. 6 in., run the 100-meter dash in 10.3 sec. (just .3 sec. off the world record), and Hodge, who still goes to college, can heave the 16-lb. shot 56 ft. 7½ in. - good enough by itself to coin an Olympic gold medal in 1948. Last month at the U.S. decathlon championships in Salina, Kans., Toomey scored 8,234 points under the complicated performance tables, and Hodge scored 8,130 to put both over the old world record of 8,089 set in 1963 by Nationalist China...
Against a broad-jump field thinned by injuries, Awori managed to win with a 22 ft., 9 1/2 in leap, Harvey Thomas jumped 22 ft., in, to take third place...
Rumania's leggy Yolanda Balas high-jumped a record 5 ft. 11½ in. in Los Angeles, and Britain's tidy Mary Rand broke the broad-jump record twice in one week, an event now discreetly referred to as the "ladies' long jump...
Motion makes Calder's imagery. Line meanders, mobiles wobble, stabiles broad-jump. His art is open and practical, restless and even coarse. Blunt as his shears permit, it also is in love with innocence and in charge of material reality. It is "100% American," as Leger once stated, yet as international an expression as any man who ever made happiness with his hands...