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...takes so little to set Sprinter Mel Patton's delicate nerves to jangling that he never reads the sport pages before a race. But he could not help knowing that the East had a challenger for his championship, a lanky Negro lad named Andy Stanfield, from Seton Hall College (N.J.). The night before the N.C.A.A. championships, Patton's wife artfully kept his mind off the race. He didn't begin to work himself into a state-in which his placid disposition turns sour and he fails to recognize his best friends-until just before...
Without question, Roger Bannister was Britain's best foot forward in spiked shoes since the great Sydney Wooderson. Another Oxford lad, Nick Stacey, ran off with the 100-and 220-yd. dashes and Teammate Philip Morgan took the twomile. But in the hurdles and field events, where professional coaching pays off, the coach-less Britons flopped. They lost the meet...
...bucktoothed, husky lad with a wide grin, Brown stood No. 372 in his class, chose civil-engineering duty. This will spare both him and the Navy the potential embarrassments of the close-packed life of seagoing wardrooms. It will also get him a postgraduate engineering course at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before he goes to duty in a Navy shore establishment. He deplored the fuss about him: "I don't think the American public has matured enough to accept a person on the basis of his ability and not regard him as an oddity . . . just because of his color...
...refused to participate in The Academy's program of military training.) And this year we have with us a Negro boy, Tad McKinley. (But Tad is expelled a week before his graduation for making love to his girl at Spring Prom.) Happily, our new Council President is a fine lad, Buddy Brown; we're sure Buddy will do a fine job. (Buddy is a little stinker, but we treat him kindly because his father is a Very Influential...
...Bevan, the hard-eyed lad from the Welsh mines, knows why. The drive for state maternalism is not primarily the work of doctrinaires, Marxist or otherwise; it is a distillation of the bitter experience of Bevan and his comrades. Whether the brew is poison or not, it has been a long time cooking...