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Army should post its share of first places. Jim Warner won the Heptagonal mile after being tripped to the ground a lap from the finish, while Harvard's Jim Smith stayed on his feet, and finished way back in the pack. Smith edged Warner for second place in the indoor Heps, but a similar surprise is unlikely tomorrow...
Lyndon's "Miss Kate," now Mrs. Chester C. Loney, 72, who lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Rough and Ready, Calif., was 19 then, remembers Lyndon well. "He was an adorable boy," she recalls. "He always sat on my lap when he recited his lessons. He would put a little finger under each word. You could see he was real pleased as he slowly made out the words, a letter at a time. He was bright and very affectionate." Yet for all her softness toward her youngest pupil, Kate Deadrich...
Walt Hewlett breezed in the two-mills, taking the lead after the third lap and lengthening it steadily the rest of the way. He hit the tape in 9:12.3, a long six seconds ahead of Army's Jim Warner, Winner in the mile...
Those who did have the Courreges to fight the mob included Baby Jane Holzer, Marion Javits, Cyd Charisse, and in the train, massaging his temples, a harassed Huntinaton Hartford. But the cynosure of all thighs was Arthur-coiffed Rudolf Nureyev, whose lap, noted Fashion Writer Eugenia Sheppard, "was the most 'in' place for any woman to be Wednesday night." Rudi had an embrace for Tennessee Williams, but f rugged first with Sybil...
Hewlett, making his first appearance of the outdoor season, trotted the first mile of his race and was languishing in fourth place at the half-way mark. But he took the lead on the next lap with an astonishing 1:04 quarter and breezed home the winner...