Word: hagge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird. In Deep River, Conn., Ronald G. Hagg, found guilty of swerving his car to kill a pheasant, was fined $50 for 1) using a motor vehicle in hunting, 2) hunting out of season, 3) hunting on Sunday, 4) driving on the wrong side of the road...
...Melbourne, Australian Miler John Landy, aiming for a world record four-minute mile, came within a breathtaking two seconds of it in 4:02, just six-tenths off Gunder Hagg's record of 1945. Plainly discouraged, Landy said, "I've done as well as I can. I'm running for fun from now on. If I do the four-minute mile, it will be a fluke...
...Santee took over. He tore past the three-quarter mark in 3 :03.5, then reeled off the last quarter in a dazzling 0:58.9 to breast the tape in front at 4:02.4. His time was precisely one second off the world record set by Sweden's Gunder Hagg in 1945, and the fastest mile ever run by an American...
...British Amateur Athletic Association track meet, Oxford's Roger Bannister, now a medical student and somewhat out of training, turned in an amazing performance: a 4:03.6 mile, which made him the fifth-fastest miler in history. (The record: 4:01.4 by Sweden's Gundar Hagg...