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...entered Bakersfield (Calif.) College, and cut his running times to a creditable 9.4 sec. in the 100, 20.6 in the 220. Unhappy with his poor showing in the 1960 Olympics-he started sloppily, was eliminated in the loo-meter quarter-finals-Johnson transferred to San Jose State to work under canny Track Coach Lloyd ("Bud") Winter, who developed U.S. Sprinters Ray Norton and Bobby Poynter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Challenger | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Charlie Bittick 21, a member of the Olympic water polo team, whose rugged shoulders and arms, developed in one of the world's toughest games, made him the meet's only triple winner: loo-yd. and 220-yd. backstroke and 400-yd. individual medley-all in record times. Born in landlocked El Reno, Okla., Bittick moved to Long Beach, Calif, at eleven and quickly developed an abiding taste for the Pacific Ocean. A few years later he was a high school swimming star. At the University of Southern California, where he is captain of the swimming team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Record Wreckers | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...Santa Clara Swim Club, who broke two world records on successive days: in the 200-meter backstroke, pushed by Teammate Von Saltza, Lynn hit 2 min. 33.5 sec., a full 3.6 sec. faster than the world mark set by Japan's Satoko Tanaka earlier this year; in the loo-meter backstroke, she clocked an equally astonishing time-1 min. 10.1 sec., knocking nine-tenths of a second from the world mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Five in the Pool | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Johnson was superb. On the first day, he ran the loo-meter dash in 10.6 sec., broad-jumped 24 ft. 9¼ in., put the shot 52 ft., high-jumped 5 ft. 10 in., and ran the 400 meters in 48.6 sec. Next day. he returned to spring the no-meter high hurdles in 14.5 sec., hurl the discus 170 ft. 6½ in. (almost 10 ft. farther than he had ever thrown it before), pole-vault 13 ft. ¼ in., throw the javelin 233 ft. 3 in. and run 1,500 meters in 5 min. 9.9 sec. Yet even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whatever It Takes | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...identify with them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close-cropped hair and a deceptive Social Studies i-A loo, they strum guitars and banjos, foam like dentifrice, tumble onto nightclub stages as if the M.C. had caught them in the middle of their own private party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIN PAN ALLEY: Like from Halls of Ivy | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

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