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William D. Hewson Edmonton, Alta...
Died. Sir Frank Douglas Hewson Packer, 67, Australian communications mogul and sailing enthusiast; of pneumonia; in Sydney. Packer began making waves with the launching of Australian Women's Weekly, today the country's top-circulation weekly magazine. He went on to build a profitable publishing and television conglomerate and in 1972 sold his two largest newspapers, the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to his archrival, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million. Once an amateur heavyweight boxing champion, Packer was combative, even ruthless, in his business dealings. He described his unsuccessful bids for the yachting America...
...come-from-behind victory in the Boston K. of C. Meet or his duel with England's Brian Hewson in the B.A.A. Games came away unhappy. And, on March 7, he produced one of the greatest efforts in track history by catching Hungarian Istvan Rozsavolgyi after all seemed lost, winning in a new world record time...
...dentist, Australian Miler Mervyn Lincoln came on fast in the final lap at the Los Angeles Coliseum and almost gave the crowd the four-minute mile it had come to see. He finished in 4:01, ahead of Britain's Brian Hewson (4:01.4), Hungarian Expatriate Laszlo Tabori (4:01.6) and Britain's Derek Ibbotson (4:02). All four had already broken four minutes elsewhere; Ibbotson had come to town boldly predicting he would win in 3:56. "Our appearance," said the unabashed fourth-place Briton, "ought to be a challenge to the young fellows of the States...
...record-matching half-mile run by Britain's Brian Hewson was scant consolation for the crowd at London's White City Stadium, as Hungary's Laszlo Tabori whipped Three-Mile Champion Chris Chataway in a slow mile (4:05) and three-mile race (13:44.6), to help the Hungarians win a dual meet...