Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Gil Dodds and Glenn Cunningham before him, he had reached maturity as a distance man only in his late 203. He was no great shakes in track at Indiana University, where he specialized in crosscountry and the longer distance races. Gradually he mastered the two-mile run. Then, since track promoters were hunting high & low for milers, he reluctantly tackled the shorter distance. Last week, wearing the winged-foot emblem of the New York Athletic Club, he toed the mark against six rivals in the Philadelphia Inquirer Mile...
...enough to like his entertainers identified (obviously a hold-over from the days of vaudeville when the names of the various acts were printed on placards at the side of the stage), we have all come to accept it as an inherited civic calamity, like Curley or codfish or Cunningham...