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...Santee, the Kansas cyclone, this was the one to win. Only a week before, in the Wanamaker Mile, he had lost a last-lap wrestling match to Private Freddie Dwyer and while the two were tangling, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen ran off with Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
...while, it seemed as if Santee's early speed might pay off. Nielsen was rattled at the sight of his rival pulling away, shifted into high and ran his heart out closing the gap. Only Dwyer, striding smoothly some 30 yards back, was wise enough to run his own race. His discipline made Santee look like a schoolboy...
...Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began...
...back. Center Walt Gannon with Norm Gahm and Roger Gratwick as wings make up the first line. Phil DeCaro and Mike Moskoware at defense with Tom Walsh and Andy Casner. Gordie Lunn is the team's goalie. The second line consists of Bob Lloyd, Bill Johnson, and John Dwyer...
...Sapio soon became the leader of a group attempting to loosen the strangle lock held on Tammany for generations by Irish-Americans. He got his break in 1949, when three incumbent leaders quit in "rapid succession under fire from Mayor William O'Dwyer. De Sapio was elected Tammany leader. But it was hardly an honor...