Word: mel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doric columns of the Brandenburger Tor on their way to homes in the Russian sector. An open truck carrying some dozen Soviet-sector police drove towards them up Unter den Linden-apparently dispatched with the vague intent of keeping order. The crowd jeered them; rocks followed jeers and the melée began...
...opposition over a cup of coffee. He checked in at the office by 9, got up to St. Patrick's in time to cover Babe Ruth's funeral, walked over to the Waldorf-Astoria men's bar for a reminiscent lunch with Mourners Leo Durocher and Mel Ott. Back at the office, he wrote the funeral story (see above), took 35 minutes to peck out a syndicated column that goes to 600 newspapers, and wrestled his first edition to press. That night, in his apartment, he worked on a book he is writing, while Mirror messengers came...
...After Mel Pattern's poor showing in the Olympics 100-meter dash, I am quite convinced that having one's picture on the cover of TIME is . . . the kiss of death...
When Patton first noticed that he was tense and tight before a race, Pursell reassured him: "If a runner is perfectly composed and at ease, he's no champion." Pursell was Patton's idol. When the coach suggested that Mel not dance ("It takes the tone out of your legs"), Mel didn't. He forsook swimming and lolling on the beach because Pursell advised him to. Pursell, no man to grab credit, told Patton that everything he knew about track he learned from Dean Cromwell...
Pursell wanted Patton to go to U.S.C. In 1945, already a polished sprinter, Mel Patton enrolled there. He had just finished a two-year hitch in the Navy without ever running a race, and hadn't shaken off his G.I. legs. He reported to Coach Cromwell...