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Trackside dockers were not at all surprised to see the handsome sorrel-topped fellow open a big lead and then ease up. He won breezing. Then they looked at their watches again. In his qualifying heat for the 220-yd. dash at the Atlantic Coast Conference track meet in Durham, N.C. last week, long-legged (6 ft. 2 in., 187 Ibs.) Duke Sophomore Dave Sime (rhymes with skim) had run off a casual 0:20.1 to crack Mel Patton's seven-year-old world record by a tenth of a second. Next day, running into a light head wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Class of the Field | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...dash in 0:9.4, just a tenth of a second off the world record, and taking the 220-yd. dash in 0:20.3, another slim tenth of a second off the world record, Duke Sophomore Dave Sime won the 220-yd. low hurdles in a track meet at Durham, N.C. in 0:22.2. This time he was exactly one-tenth of a second faster than the world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Various Breeds. Looking for heavier, meatier animals, the rancher turned to the foreign breeds that were trickling into the country as early as 1783: first the Shorthorn (Durham), then the Hereford and the Aberdeen Angus from Britain, and from India the hardy Brahman. But no breed possessed all virtues. The Shorthorn-for a time the most popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE GOLDEN CALF | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...University College in Leicester and in August by the University College of the Southwest in Exeter, Devonshire. The British Drama League holds two sessions, one at Chichester August 1 to 15, and the other at Alnwick, August 31 to September 9, on "Drama and the Theater." The University of Durham sponsors a training program for would-be archaeologists at Corbridge-on-Tyne in late July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: European Summer Schools Still Accept U.S. Applicants | 4/12/1956 | See Source »

Munro will take three midfields on the trip, all veterans of last year's dark days: Fuzzy Stewart, Jim Gale, and Tom Draper; Mike Holmes, Barry Saxe, and Mike Durham; Maclay Hyde, Johnny Lane, and Tony Ostheimer...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 3/30/1956 | See Source »

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