Word: jump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show was Kelly, based on a legendary jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, and several would-be producers, looking before they leaped, had earlier dropped their options. Undeterred by the fears of other angels, Susskind and his Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. rushed in, somehow found $350,000 lying around. To round out the nut, they talked Columbia Records into ponying up $50,000 and got the remaining $250,000 from Producer-Plunger Joseph E. Levine...
Aggrey Awori, voted outstanding performer of the meet by the coaches, won both the high and low hurdles and took thirds in the broad jump and dash...
...high cost. Says National Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy of the more than 6-ft.-wide Bathers: "Size is of no great value in a mediocre work. In a great artist, it spells adventure: thinking big, feeling big, painting big." Hendy attributes his museum's sudden jump of 26,000 in attendance chiefly to the new Cézanne. However proud, he is taking no chances. The controversial Bathers hangs alone in a guarded room, protected by a bulletproof Perspex plastic screen...
Chris Pardee can ignore his competition and concentrate on the yardstick again tonight in the high jump, and he may well rewrite his own Harvard record of 6 ft., 9 in. Ken Winters will again need to improve on his best vault to place high in a large field of pole vaulters...
Aggrey Awori is expected to be a triple winner. He is favored to take the broad jump, dash, and hurdles. Tonight he has only the broad jump to worry about, since even a mediocre performance should qualify him for the finals in the dash and the hurdles...