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...most of two laps on the brick-tinted cinders, the U.S. Army's Tom Courtney and his smooth-striding teammate Arnie Sowell of Pittsburgh scrapped for the lead. "I have been trying for three years to call on some extra quality in the stretch." said Courtney later, "and 20 yards from the wire I realized this was the moment. But my legs were dead. I couldn't run. I was all in. I told myself that this was not an 800-meter race but one of 20 yards. I only had to run 20 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Citius, Alfius, Fortius | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...meeting with Pusey, were Harvie Branscomb, chancellor of Vanderbilt University, and Courtney C. Smith '38, president of Swarthmore College. Smith is also a Harvard overseer...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Pusey Says Fund Program Points Up National Needs | 11/1/1956 | See Source »

...quarrel with Fischer's basic point: it is one thing for a minority to persuade readers not to read certain books, but it is quite another to in effect deprive all readers of books the minority declares unsuitable. Fischer quotes the eminent Roman Catholic moral theologian, Father John Courtney Murray, S.J., of Woodstock College, Md. "No minority group has the right to impose its own religious or moral views on other groups, through the use of methods of force, coercion or violence," says Father Murray. It is especially unwise for Catholics, he adds, "lest the Church itself be identified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sex & Censors | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

McCurdy thinks that Courtney will add another championship to his list at Melbourne. He said the Fordham graduate, who placed first in the Olympic trials, "has much more speed now than he did while in college." "With training, he could be equally good in the quarter-mile or even the mile," the coach added...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/16/1956 | See Source »

...Courtney is now out on the West Coast training with the rest of the squad, as it participates in various practice meets, and the man he most fears is his teammate, Arnie Sowell...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 10/16/1956 | See Source »

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