Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lowering his own meet record for the mile from 4:08.4 to 4:07.8, and winning the 880-yd. run, just 1¼ hr. later, with a fast 1 :50. It was all just a warmup for next week's meeting at Compton, Calif, with Aussie Herb Elliott, who got ready himself by winning the California Relays mile...
Australia's young (20) Herb Elliott arrived in California announcing that he was not traveling for pleasure. This was a business trip. Elliott's business: running the mile faster than anybody else...
...time was a disappointment to Elliott. With no one pushing him, he complained, he had "faded a little" toward the end. All he had done was run a 3:57.8 mile, his fourth under four minutes and the second fastest ever. Only Britain's Derek Ibbotson. who last year was clocked in 3:57.2, has done better. But Ibbotson's time, like Elliott's, may never be accepted by the International Amateur Athletic Federation because both marks were made with the aid of "pacers.'' The world's record is still held by Australia...
...Monuments. The company is run by the three Mackle brothers-Elliott, 49, Robert, 46, and Frank, 42-who now rank as the South's biggest residential builders. The brothers, who share one office and secretary, started in the business while still schoolboys. Their father, a British-born Florida builder, insisted that they spend their summers mixing concrete and hammering nails, left them with a stern legacy: "Be the first man on the job and the last to leave. Build good houses. Don't build monuments to yourself...
...yesterday elected Theodore H. Elliott '57-4 president. Guido DiMeo '60 was re-named treasurer, and Carl Pescosolido '59 was elected clerk...