Word: mais
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mai Hooper, 25, a Los Angeles telephone-company lineman, who drove a shiny streamliner with a Class C (up to 300 cu. in.) V-8 engine over the cement-hard flats to six new International records, hitting more than 230 m.p.h. at distances from one kilometer to ten kilometers...
...Turku, Finland, Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield, pressed by Miler Wes Santee, whirled to a world record at 880 yds. in 1:48.6, breaking the old record by six-tenths of a second. Aiming for ten records in a year (TIME, Feb. 16), Whitfield has now set four (others: 500 yds., 500 meters...
...Boston, Mai Whitfield, twice Olympic champion at 800 meters and undefeated on the indoor tracks this year, won the 600-yard run in 1:10.2, equaling the indoor record set by the late John Borican (1941) and tied by Hugh Short...
...Iness, one of Bob Mathias' Tulare neighbors, setting an Olympic discus mark of 180 ft. 6.85 in., breaking the 1948 record of Italy's Adolpho Consolini. ¶ Parson Bob Richards, who set an Olympic pole vault record of 14 ft. 11.14 in. ¶ U.S. Air Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, who tied his own 1948 Olympic record to take the 800-meter run in 1 min. 49.2 sec., later missed his try for a second gold medal in the 400-meter run (won by Jamaica's George Rhoden in a record...
...should have little trouble in the sprints and hurdles, with men like Harrison Dillard (no-meter hurdles), Charles Moore (400-meter hurdles), Andy Stanfield (200 meters) and Mai Whitfield (800 meters). But as the races lengthen from 1,500 meters to the 26-mile marathon, the Swedes, Finns, Slavs and Britons take over...