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...happened in 1939 in the laboratory of a German scientist, Otto Hahn of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin...
...brilliant prep school record Dodds competed in ten official races and won all with records in five. He went to Ashland College, receiving mail-order instruction from Hahn...
...Dodds saga began when, as a boy in Falls City, Nebraska, Gil Dodds threw a rock at a passing car. The occupant emerged and gave wrathful chase; Dodds gave him a good race, but finally succumbed. The driver turned out to be Lloyd Hahn, then a famous miler, and he was so surprised at being so nearly outrun that he forgot the damage to his car and gave Dodds his first real instruction in running...
...confident that its crossroads listeners-in Anchorage, Alaska, Alamosa, Colo., Hickory, N.C., Siloam Springs, Ark.-will eat up Author Critics, whose past guest-victims have ranged from James Thurber to Lucius Beebe, Emily Hahn to Ilka Chase. KBS is doubly confident because the Book-of-the-Month is offering book prizes for the best letters from listeners. Said a small-town-wise KBS official: "Whenever you give them a prize, they're happy...
...Chicago last year, Hahn and Dodds - with the Lord's help - ran the world's fastest indoor mile. Hahn plotted the race lap by lap, eleven of them, scribbled the fractional times on paper. Dodds studied them religiously. Then Hahn stood at the starting line in Chicago's Stadium, stop watch in hand, yelled out the minutes and seconds, each time his runner pounded past. At the start of the final lap : "Three-forty-four. You're behind, Gil!" The collaborating pair missed their plotted 4:06 mile by four-tenths of a second...