Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a long, hard, frustrating year for Jim Ryun. The lanky, 19-year-old University of Kansas sophomore had faithfully logged his usual 120 miles a week in practice and competed in 30 meets from New York to California. He set U.S. records for 800 meters and two miles, ran the fastest half mile (1 min. 44.9 sec.) in history. But he failed by one-tenth of a second to tie Michel Jazy's world record for the mile. That mile mark was Jim's real goal-no American had held it in 29 years...
...bombings by canceling a track meet with the "aggressor" U.S., and the Poles followed suit. So last week's Poland-U.S. meet at Berkeley, Calif., became an All-American meet instead, and the mile race was substituted for a 1,500-meter event. The "rabbits" were Jim's competitors-Richard Romo of Texas, Tom Von Ruden of Oklahoma State, and Wade Bell of Oregon-who got together before the race, agreed to help Ryun by pressing the pace. "It will be interesting," explained Von Ruden, "to see what Ryun can do with a fast pace...
...losers will be the Cleveland Browns, whom Brown led to two Eastern Conference championships in a row. The way Jim figured it, though, the Browns might be even better off without him. "Now," he explained modestly, "the other teams' defenses won't be able to key on one man any more...
...Diamond Jim Brady went there regularly, accompanied by 27 Japanese houseboys and Lillian Russell. One day William K. Vanderbilt strolled into the casino to await some delayed dinner companions, dropped $130,000 in a few minutes. Another day John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates lost $500,000 on the races, then proceeded to win back most of it by playing faro until dawn. In the afternoons, Victor Herbert conducted concerts on the porch of an elegant hotel;-in the evenings, Caruso and John McCormack sang outdoors. Such was the summer scene at the turn of the century at Saratoga Springs...
...world. In the summer, more and more of the major U.S. symphony orchestras and dance companies are packing their tubas and tutus, fleeing the sweltering cities for theaters in the sticks. And many of them are settling in and around the place where Diamond Jim and Bet a Million used to gambol...