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Before last week's big Wanamaker Mile, France's happy-go-lucky Marcel Hansenne thought: "Why should I spend so much effort when I could be leading an easy life? I must be a fool to run." It was his first race in the U.S., his first indoors, his first taste of a hardboard track. Marcel ran, but the effort he spent was not enough...
...milers, Les MacMitchell. The 150-lb. Frenchman ran with feather-footed ease, his arms high, no pumping. He arranged to have fractional times called in French - 2:12.4 at the half, tantalizingly slow for Madison Square Garden's fast track. Suddenly, with the finish almost in sight, Marcel ran out of gas, wound up third, 12 yards back of MacMitchell. Time...
Twinkle-eyed, 29-year-old Marcel Han senne, a journaliste, never intended to be a runner. He took up basketball, found his endurance surprisingly strong, turned to running. But he still wonders how he became France's middle-distance champion...
...foreign threat was Marcel Hansenne, France's ace miler, who this week landed in Manhattan, was dead set for a Feb. 2 unveiling in the Millrose mile...
...Washington to brief him on Big Three issues throughout the world. Bevin went to the British embassy, where Ambassador Clark Kerr turned over to him his living room-bedroom-bath apartment which he calls "Proust" because it has a paneled bath room like the one in which Author Marcel Proust's Albertine used to splash. Clark Kerr's bedroom has dark walnut paneling under a royal blue border with gold flow ers. The paneling is covered with gnomes, dwarfs, beggars and oilier baroque gremlins. (Clark Kerr tells friends he wants an air gun so he can shoot gnomes...