Word: herbe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them knew a runner who got so nervous before a race that he was afraid to walk down steps and had to be carried by teammates. At those times, Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican quarter-miler, walks around in a stupor, unable to speak when spoken to. Sweden's famed miler, Lennart Strand, gets absentminded; he recently went out for a race without his running shirt...
...Milwaukee, Herb McKenley, long-legged Jamaica Negro, ran the 400-meter National A.A.U. championship in 45.9 (slicing a tenth of a second off the world record). Next day, Negro Harrison Dillard lost his first race in 83 starts; he overdid himself by running four races in little over one hour, lost two finals...
First Ballot. He was up early for his big day, ate some bacon & eggs and began seeing the people who were already streaming up to the eighth floor. Charlie Halleck dropped by to see Herb Brownell. News came that Senator Leverett Saltonstall was releasing the Massachusetts votes which he controlled...
...Services' Review (Thurs. 8 p.m., NBC). Burgess Meredith emceeing a new Army-Air Force show. Guests: Marlene Dietrich, Irving Berlin, Herb Shriner...
...Compton, Calif., a lanky Negro named Lloyd La Beach (Panama's one-man Olympic hope) burned up the cinder path for 200 meters. His time (20.2) knocked one-tenth of a second off the world mark set by Jesse Owens back in 1935. Next day, long-legged Negro Herb McKenley (Jamaica's one-man Olympic hope) ran a dizzy 440 yards. The time (46 flat) chipped three-tenths of a second off his own world's record set a year...