Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only real U.S. hope in the six-man field was a young (21), skinny and bespectacled University of Wisconsin junior named Don Gehrmann, making his bigtime indoor debut. For weeks, track circles had buzzed with rumors about Gehrmann's sensational time trials in Madison: his coaches claimed to have clocked him in 4:06.1, only .8 sec. off Gil Dodds's indoor record. If that was not a mistake, Gehrmann could be the best miler on the boards...
...Indoor Blaze. The band was not through. Before the two-mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest...
Fencing--Friday--Bowdoin, at Indoor Athletic Building...
Swimming--Saturday--Navy, at Indoor Athletic Building...
...thought he had the right house. The living room had a big picture window; the fireplace boasted a second opening in the kitchen for indoor barbecues. The kitchen shone with stainless steel cabinets and sink, a new refrigerator and automatic washer...