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...Santee, the Kansas cyclone, this was the one to win. Only a week before, in the Wanamaker Mile, he had lost a last-lap wrestling match to Private Freddie Dwyer and while the two were tangling, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen ran off with Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
...Fast for Rabbits. No doubt about it, Wes was anxious. After one blistering lap, he even got impatient with Northeastern's Dick Ollen, the mechanical rabbit who had served as such a fine pacesetter the last two times they ran. Wes took over the lead and hustled through the first quarter in a man-killing 56.6 seconds. If he had his way, no one was going to get close enough to nudge him with a free-swinging elbow; neither Gunnar Nielsen nor anyone else was going to have enough kick left to catch him in the stretch...
...Henry James laced into the good grey poet. "To become adopted as a national poet," wrote young James, "it is not enough to discard everything in particular and to accept everything in general, to amass crudity upon crudity, to discharge the undigested contents of your blotting-book into the lap of the public. You must respect the public which you address; for it has taste, if you have not." To which Whitman, for once laconic, snorted: "Feathers...
...second in the 100 freestyle until Chouteau Dyer pulled ahead of him in the last 25 yards to place by four feet. The only other close race was also for second place as Pete Mackey beat Midshipman Slack by five feet with a burst of speed in the last lap of the 150 individual medley...
Peter Churchill, Poindexter, and Dane also skied in the relay which was won for the Finnish Ski Club of New York by Anchorman Tauno Pulkinen in 38:46. Pulkinen won a last lap duel with Dick Osgood of the University of New Hampshire...