Word: ingvars
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Something Wrong. Gehrmann wasted no time looking back. The loudspeaker told him what he wanted to know: at the half, he heard his time (2:02), noted that Willy Slykhuis was second, pressing close. Ingvar Bengtsson, loaded with penicillin for abscessed teeth, had faded fast and was out of the running...
...Dutch national anthem!" At the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, 16,000 track fans rose respectfully while the band tootled an unfamiliar tune in honor of The Netherlands' miler, stringy Willy Slykhuis (rhymes, roughly, with dike mouse).* Then the band played the Swedish national anthem, for Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine chance to break the pattern...