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Died. Dr. John ("Jack") E. Lovelock...
...Zealand's wiry, curly-haired trackman, who set world's records in the '30s, came to Manhattan two years ago to specialize in crippling diseases; in an accidental fall before a subway train shortly after telling friends he felt ill; in Brooklyn. Lovelock's world's records, all since surpassed: in 1932, a ¾mile in 3 min. 2.2 sec.; in 1933, a mile in 4 min. 7.6 sec.; in 1936, before Adolf Hitler and 100,000 others at the Berlin Olympics, the 1,500-meter...
...Autobiography of Anthony Trollope (in which the old fox hunter posthumously appalled his huge public by admitting with a gay cackle that money had always been his muse). But where other note-makers have nailed their colors to the mast and let their hair down to the last soiled lovelock, urbane Maugham has preferred to soak his colors in bleach and pin his hair in a tight bun. His Notebook (the whittlings-down of "fifteen stoutish volumes") contains mostly workaday jottings from 1892 (when he had just started to write) to 1949 (when he suggests that he is just about...
Roger Bannister, best young British miler since Jack Lovelock, is expected to run the fastest American mile of the season in Monday's 15th Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet at the Stadium. The slim Oxford medical student did 4:11.1 at Princeton Saturday for one of the four first places the Englishmen picked up in losing to Princeton-Cornell, 9-4. The only faster mile which has been run in the United States this spring was a 4:10.1 by Wisconsin's Don Gehrmann in the Kansas Relays...
...least three meet records will be jeopardized Monday in the Stadium. Bannister and Wade will be shooting for the 4:12.6 mile mark Jack Lovelock established in 1933; Jim Fuchs seems sure to set a new record in the 16-pound shot; and George Appel may break the pole vault record...