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Volo Song and Mr. Ben raced a losing first heat that turned the classic into a three-heat thriller. Volo Song broke off-stride at the start, did not strike his gait until he was an impossible 20 lengths back...
Paced by Bill Hulse in the first and second quarters, Gunder pressed him closely, his lean legs working with the mechanistic precision of the connecting rods in an idling aircraft engine. "Faster, faster," he whispered to Bill, who was whirling along in his loping gait for all he was worth...
Finally Hägg pulled up in front. In the final stretch Gil Dodds decided to move ahead. He charged heavily past Hulse, then past Hägg, pounding the track with laborious, clubbing gait. Hägg, who consistently looks around, had seen him coming. He seemed to turn on no more steam, or to speed his pace. He just exchanged places with Gil Dodds, whirled smoothly to the lead, won again...
Beginning in Berlin in 1925, Wolff examined with a piercing eye the physiognomy and behavior of several dozen men and women. In pictures and sound he recorded their faces, hands, voices, handwriting, gait, storytelling style...
...with their own pictures and records (mingled with others), with surprising results: only one in ten recognized his own recorded voice, most failed to recognize their own profiles, hands, mirrored hand writing, or speaking rhythm. Half failed to identify their storytelling style. But perversely, every person recognized his own gait, though he had probably never seen it before...