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...lane No. 2. The others were strung out across the track. Bang! At the gun, California's George Jessup pounced in front. Beatty was second, Weisiger third, Grelle fourth, Snell a distant sixth. Nobody expected Jessup to be around for long. Sure enough, midway through the second lap, Beatty leaped into the lead...
Cooper was all but born in a pilot's seat. A native of Oklahoma, his father was a lawyer, a county judge from Shawnee-and an amateur pilot. Gordo sat in his father's lap during voyages in an old Command-Aire biplane, took the stick himself by the time he was six. As a teenager, he worked odd jobs around the Shawnee airport to pay for lessons in a J-3 Piper Cub trainer. He was inspired, in part, by stories his father told about two famed acquaintances, Amelia Earhart and Wiley Post. Gordo soloed "officially...
...last lap came, scientists determined that at least part of Faith 7's electrical system was gone. And just before the time came for the manual firing of rockets to slow the craft down before landing, the whole electrical system was reported out of order...
Mottley--clearly the star of the meet--made up an amazing 35 yards in the final lap of the relay as he came from last place to edge out Harvard's anchor man, Bill McAfee. The junior from Trinidad also led the meet record for the 440-yd. run with a time of 47.0 seconds...
...Ogden's real heroics had come earlier, in the 330 yard run. The field was very fast, and a bunched pack jumped out of a :53.0 first lap. Meehan, near the front, tired quickly, but Ogden, who was in sixth place at the quarter, finished with an incredible sprint to place second in 1:51.1, an amazing four seconds under the sophomore's previous best...