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...Record. The son of a sometime professional fighter. Jimmy attended Manhasset High School on Long Island, averaged 14.9 yards a try as a senior halfback, 38 points a game for the basketball team, set a school high-jump record (6 ft. 3 in.), pitched and played first base for the baseball team. After sifting 45 scholarship offers, he chose Syracuse, majored in sociology, put on a spectacular one-man show in the 1957 Cotton Bowl by scoring three touchdowns, booting three conversions against Texas Christian in a 28-27 losing cause...
When Johnny left San Francisco two years ago, his chief claim to fame was as a high-jump star (6 ft. 5½ in.) at San Francisco State College. The son of a chauffeur, Johnny once took operatic coaching but prepared in college for a teaching career (English). In his spare time, he picked up pin money singing in local clubs and with a semiprofessional opera group. Helen Noga, co-owner of San Francisco's famed Black Hawk nightclub, heard him, introduced him to Columbia Records' George Avakian. His first successful single, Wonderful, Wonderful, sat around for several...
...Russian Yuri Stepanov (6 ft. 1 in.) holds the unofficial world high-jump record of 7 ft. 1 in.; American Jesse Owens (5 ft. 111n.) holds the running broad-jump record...
JOHNNY MATHIS, 21, who was a San Francisco State College sophomore and a high-jump star when Columbia Records heard him singing in his spare time in a San Francisco nightclub. His first, heavily jazz-oriented album limped along un-spectacularly; his first single, Wonderful, Wonderful, attracted scant attention at first. Then it began to light boards in San Francisco and Boston and edge up onto the bestseller charts in the trade press. Another single, It's Not for Me to Say made the charts, too (No. 16 last week...
...Bouncing higher and higher ever since he set a world's high-jump record (6 ft.in 11½) in June 1953, Texas A & M Alumnus Walt Davis, now an employee in the Jefferson County sheriff's department, took time out twice in one week to put on jumping exhibitions in Beaumont and Houston, sailed over a 7-ft. bar each time...