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They may have been watching a future Olympic champion, for the bigger runner was Tom Courtney, one of the U.S.A.'s entrants in the 800 meter run. The man with him was one of Harvard's greatest track and field men ever, the 1955 captain, Bob Rittenburg...
...both privates first class in the Army, were completing a series of workouts to prepare Courtney for the Melbourne Olympics next month. They had been training here for several weeks on special assignment from the Army...
Rittenburg's function was to aid Courtney's training. The former Crimson ace would have been preparing himself, too, except that he came in fifth in the final of the Olympic 400-meter hurdle trial last summer, after winning the event at the Armed Services championships...
...started back to the jungle with help, he could not find the couple. Soon fog and darkness closed in, and the searchers gave up for the night. Next day, parties of 4,000 civil guards, police, soldiers and Boy Scouts beat the bushes until they found Harrison and Miss Courtney, both exhausted after a sleepless night and suffering from exposure. While they recovered in a Ciudad Trujillo hospital, the police put Weldy in a cell until they could check his story that the shot was an accident...
...Actor Wayne: " Weldy is a nice fellow, but I deplore the fact that he is such a poor shot." Said Weldy: "I'm going up the Amazon and get lost." Said Harrison: " I have had enough of the goddamned jungle for the rest of my life." Said Miss Courtney: "I wasn't in love with either of them...