Word: decathlon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Helsinki last summer, a big (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.) Negro high-school boy from Plainfield, N.J. trudged wearily into a locker room in the Olympic stadium. Worn down by the two-day competition in the Olympics' most demanding test, Decathlon Man Milton Campbell gave World Champion Bob Mathias a congratulatory backslap, then flopped on a cot. Little stirred by his own feat in becoming Olympic runner-up, Milt moaned: "I'd rather die than go through that again...
Married. Robert Bruce Mathias, 22, Stanford's two-time Olympic decathlon winner (1948, '52) and star fullback; and Melba Wiser, 21, a college classmate; in Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, Calif. After his graduation next January, Mathias will report for two years' active duty as a Marine Reserve second lieutenant...
...Douglas Kennedy wrote this week's cover story, the seventh he has written since he came to TIME in '1950. Subjects of Kennedy's other cover stories: Sugar Ray Robinson, Dick Savitt, Princeton's Dick Kazmaier, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, and Olympic Decathlon Champion Bob Mathias...
After the war Kennedy went to work for his home-town paper, the Worcester, Mass. Telegram and Evening Gazette, and then joined the New York Herald Tribune as a sports writer. Says he: "My beat was so wide that I soon' became known as the decathlon man." Among his many titles: ski editor. That title and the experience came in handy when TIME'S editors picked the cover subject for the issue of Jan. 21, 1952. The subject: Andrea Mead Lawrence, a swivel-hipped girl of grace and speed, captain of the U.S. women's Olympic...
...Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs for touchdowns against Army [and a cadet halfback named Ike Eisenhower] in 1912." In the Olympics that year, with hardly any formal training, Jim won both the pentathlon and the decathlon. When Jim stepped up to receive his trophies from Sweden's King Gustaf V, the King said: "You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world." Jim's reply: "Thanks. King...