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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dean Bartlett Cromwell, 82, longtime track coach at the University of Southern California, who from 1909 to 1948 produced teams that won more national championships (twelve) and more individual honors (among his champions: World Record Sprinters Charlie Paddock, Frank Wycoff, Mel Patton) than any other coach; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...young autograph seekers by signing programs with an X, announced a new policy of "no interview" to sportswriters, cursed out and threatened to slug U.P.I. Columnist Oscar Fraley, refused to pose for a photograph with Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby. Said TV's longtime "Voice of the Yankees" Mel Allen: "Maris has a lot to learn about warmth, appreciation, graciousness, and that sort of thing...
Marination by Mother. Budd has already run the 100 in 9.2, lowering the 9.3 mark set by Mel Patton in 1948. He is certain that he is just beginning to test his real speed. At the I.C.4-A. indoor meet in Manhattan recently, he clocked a record-tying 6 sec. flat for the difficult 60-yd. dash not once, but twice in the same day. Outdoors at the longer distance, with his flashing acceleration, there is no telling what...
...Sandven, a talented sophomore at 147, will be making his first start for Harvard tonight. His opponent is sophomore Charles Geddis. At 123 the Crimson has another good chance for points with Pete Keeler, who has compiled a 3-1 mark so far, wrestling Mel Mounts, F & M's other veteran...
...keep; I'm sure that we can carry on With income from our sheep." So does Director Jack (Lucky Me) Donohue, who can't even extort amusing pedal persiflage from Actor Bolger, one of the cleverest comic dancers of the age. And so do Lyricist Mel Leven and Songwriter George Bruns, who might profitably have excised Glenn MacDonough's words ("Toyland! Toyland! Little girl and boyland!") but should have restricted the impulse to "modernize" Victor Herbert's music-might as well try to jazz up Piesporter Goldtröpfchen with Pepsi-Cola...