Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...event that might linger longest in the minds of the delegates, spectators, and television watchers of the Democratic Convention was neither Harry Truman's fighting speech nor the Southern schism. It was the pigeons...
Third Down. For the 100-meter dash, the crowd's favorite event, Mel Patton ("the world's fastest human") wore a pair of brand-new spikes; his old shoes had gotten wet and fallen apart. Patton got off to a slow start, along with Dillard, who was hoping to qualify in two events (dash and hurdles). Ancient (30), competition-wise Barney Ewell, a Negro foundry-worker and a father, whom nobody had given much of a chance to win, made a flying start, pumped furiously with knees high for the first 60 yards, then relaxed...
Like corpses in a morgue, track-&-field stars lay sprawled on benches in the locker room. They were trying to relax before the big test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...
...Then, on another occasion, on July 4, 1850, a sad event took place. President Zachary Taylor came out here to a celebration such as this, and he delivered the oration of the day. Then, it being hot as it is now, he ate cherries and fruit, and drank a lot of water, and he went back to the White House and on July 9, he was dead. Let's hope that nothing of that sort happens here today...
...four television networks, NBC (with LIFE), CBS, ABC and Du Mont, will again offer sidelights, speculation, scorekeeping, interviews and convention color; the TV stations will again pool resources for maximum coverage of doings on the floor of Convention Hall. The sideshows will get under way on Thursday, the main event on Monday evening, with Senator Barkley's keynote address...