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...Gunder Hägg, the Swedish track flash, set a world's record for the twomile: 8 min. 53.9 sec. He had already been making time in Hollywood-for a traveling companion around one movie lot he had green-eyed Greer Garson...
After his U.S. debut three weeks ago, Sweden's wraithlike Gunder Hägg stood at a microphone and told his countrymen he was sorry that Arne Andersson had not come along with him. Andersson, a 27-year-old Gothenburg schoolteacher, had set the pace for Hägg in most of his seven world's record runs, had always finished a shadow length behind...
Last week, on the eve of his second U.S. appearance, Gunder Hägg was doubly sorry his shadow had stayed home. In the National Swedish Festival track meet at Gothenburg, just a year to the day after Hägg broke the world's mile record, Andersson beat it by two full seconds with a 4:02.6 mile...
...Winner. Ever since Gunder Hagg arrived in the U.S. two weeks ago he has confounded U.S. sportswriters. He speaks only a few English words, but at his first press interview, he gave the sportswriters knuckle raps aplenty...
When one asked how he happened to become a runner, Hagg looked quizzical for a moment, then snapped to his interpreter: "Ask him how he happened to become a sportswriter." Another asked: "What are your duties as a fireman?" Replied tart Gunder Hagg: "I put out fires." He calmly announced that he expected to break no records while in the U.S. because he was past his peak (at 24)-"and that's the time to become a sportswriter, when you're past your peak...