Word: decathloner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this unexpected turning point in her life, Swimmer Holm turned professional, did a Tarzan movie with Olympic Decathlon Champion Glenn Morris (which proved that she might have listened more attentively to Mrs. Dillon), made more money than she had ever seen before. She met Billy Rose at the 1937 Cleveland Aquacade, where her curvesome capers pleased him as well as the customers...
...high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter run, he may be America's best bet for the 1940 Decathlon championship...
...Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume: no leopard skin, but a serviceable breechclout, a knife...
Winner was another decathloner-Glenn Morris of Denver and New York. In the list of compliments with which the Sullivan Committee always accompanies its gifts, Decathloner Morris, who got 1.106 votes, was characterized as "modest, courageous, helpful, amiable and always willing to abide by decisions and rulings ... a fine type of sportsman. . . ." Decathloner Morris discovered his vocation in a way characteristic of decathloners. A famed footballer at Colorado State College of Agriculture, he had never seen the event until he visited the 1932 Olympic Games as a spectator. Decathloner Jim Bausch's victory, with a world record score, caused...
...know it, had no chance to beat his total, Morris finished first in 4:33.2. Disgusted with himself, he was walking off the track when officials called him back. An error in computing his earlier points meant that he had set a new world's decathlon record with 7,900 points. Currently returned to obscurity as anonymous announcer for National Broadcasting Co. in New York, Decathloner Morris was amazed last week when told that he had won. Said he: "Stop kidding me. Where did Owens finish then?" Said Jesse Owens in Havana, where, having just won a race against...