Word: holders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wintery Hyperbole. Waving an unlit blue cigarette in a holder, she pops her eyes, works her mouth into exotic shapes from figure eights to dodecahedrons, now and then poking forth a grooved tongue until she seems to be a rain-spouting functional gargoyle held up by a wildly flying buttress. All of this, including her guffaws between jokes, is merely punctuation. Phyllis Diller is not just a buffooning grotesque. Her form of comedy is even older than she is. and it runs counter to the trend of modern, storyline comedians, but her hard, calculatedly frenzied style goes over brilliantly...
...year-old Fred Norris to win a two-mile in Boston Garden in 8:49.2-nearly a full minute faster than any other schoolboy had ever before run the distance. In the U.S. championships at Madison Square Garden, Kidd won the three-mile in 13:47 while trouncing Record Holder Al Lawrence, 30. In Chicago, running in the cramped event of the mile that barely let him get warmed up, Kidd not only finished a respectable second to Hungary's lean Istvan Rozsavolgyi, 31, but turned the distance in 4:09.4 to set an indoor mark for schoolboys. "Phenomenal...
Still, there were a couple of good races. Bob Kaufmann and John Pringle finished one-two in the individual medley, leaving Penn captain and record holder Bill Slater five or ten yards in their wake...
...Habit. For John Thomas, a 19-year-old Boston University junior and world record holder in the high jump (at 7 ft. 3¾ in.), last week's New York Athletic Club meet in Madison Square Garden was a chance for self-vindication and revenge. Undefeated in two years, Thomas went to last summer's Olympics in Rome a supposedly sure gold medal winner. But without his regular coach, Ed Flanagan, to watch him, Thomas unwittingly changed his jumping style in pre-Olympic workouts, slipped into the bad habit of dropping his trailing leg as he rolled across...
...your article on A. C. Gilbert, you state that he once broke the world chin-up record, which was at that time 63. Could you please tell us what the current world record is, and who is the current world holder...