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...well-educated (N.Y.U., Columbia) A.F.L. organizer with a rugged constitution and lots of hustle. Since November 1945, when he arrived in Paris, Brown has learned to speak French, German and Italian, traveled over 500,000 miles, visited 26 countries, dealt with thousands of labor leaders from Karachi to Helsinki...
...Figure Skating Champion Dick Button still to compete, the U.S. was well on its way this week to its best showing ever in the Winter Olympics. If there was a sour note, a group of Russian "observers" helped sound it. Though they have indicated that they will compete at Helsinki this summer, the Russians sent no winter competitors. Last week, after watching the early results, they contented themselves with assuring everybody that Russian competitors are better at almost everything...
Captain Lou McCagg. All-American stroke, stressed the fact that this is an Olympic year and that the crew has high hopes of going to Helsinki, Finland, for the games...
...Decathlon Natural. With his 50th straight victory last Dec. 30 in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl meet, vaulting Bob has practically nailed down a spot on the U.S. Olympic team for this summer's games in Helsinki-and not on his aerial prowess alone. Last May he gave a talk at Pasadena's John Muir College (subject: Christianity and athletics), dropped in two days later to enter a decathlon on the invitation of Muir's track coach. In the field events Richards turned out to be a natural, despite his lack of brawn...
...heart (measured by X ray), and multiply again by his leg length. Middle and long-distance runners ought to score over 15,500; sprinters ought to score less. The highest man scored 18,869. "I predict," announced the doctor boldly, "that this student will break the mile record at Helsinki." A good many nonscientists were ready to agree. The high scorer: Britain's standout miler, Roger Bannister, who ran away from the best distance men in the U.S. at the Penn Relays last spring (TIME...