Word: gg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile goes on forever as the backbone of the sport. With Dodds out of the running, all present thought of the dream (4:04) mile vanished, and with it the "marvelous mile'' that might have been, between Dodds and Sweden's great Gunder Hägg...
Gunder ("The Wonder") Hägg, hollow-cheeked Swedish track star, ordered to report for military training in the" Swedish Army, reported for duty one day late, gave as excuse the statement that his charwoman had mislaid the induction notice, was promptly given five days in the guardhouse...
...Sweden's Gunder Hägg; a two-mile race, beating his own two-mile world record of 8:46:4 by three and six-tenths seconds; at Stockholm Stadium. His great rival Arne Andersson, one-mile record holder (TIME, July 31), did not compete...
Engaged. Gunder (the Wunder) Hägg, 24, Swedish snatcher of the U.S. outdoor mile record (at 4:05.3); and Dorothy Nortier, 19, blonde attraction of her father's Piedmont, Calif, restaurant; four weeks after Gunder sailed home. He met her when she played the accordion at a Swedish reception given for him in San Francisco...
...Semyon Lavochkin is Yakovlev's chief rival in the fighter field. A Jewish teacher's son, he is tough, unsmiling. His new plywood fighter, the Reds say, has a faster takeoff, greater punch, a remarkably easy control. The name-handle, LAGG, is compounded of LA for Lavochkin, GG for his aides, Gorbunov & Gudkov...