Word: mais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...competition from a Russian road show. Angered because Whitfield was outdrawing them four to one, the Russians did their best to take his mind off his job; they even planted a pretty girl in the room next to his at the hotel. "She started giving me the glad eye," Mai remembers, "but I don't go for that obvious stuff. I wasn't upset...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Sail with the Tide, with Claude Dauphin and Mai Zetterling...
...Mai Whitfield, 30, the world's best half-miler, won the James E. Sullivan Memorial Trophy as the U.S. amateur athlete "who, by performance, example and good influence, did the most to advance the cause of good sportsmanship during the year." "Marvelous Mai," the first Negro winner of the Sullivan Trophy since it was established in 1930, actually had his best year in 1953, but his amateur standing was under scrutiny then (he has since been fully cleared...
...fastest ever run anywhere: 4:04.4, three seconds off the world record. Last week he was in Philadelphia, on leave from college, where he is studying to be a teacher, as a special guest for the invitation mile at the Penn Relays. Another special guest: Mai Whitfield, two-time Olympic champion half-miler, who was making his mile debut...
...hero this time is a ventriloquist whose twin dummies have gone berserk. Whenever one of the little monsters sees the girl his master is about to marry, he insults her. Desperate, Danny consults a psychoanalyst and promptly pratfalls in love with the psychoanalyst's colleague (Mai Zetterling). Meanwhile, he has stumbled into more serious trouble. An international spy ring has stashed the stolen plans of a secret weapon in the heads of the dummies, and when two spies are killed in Danny's hotel room, the alarm goes out for the "redheaded ripper...