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From the moment he galloped off the mark in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays last week, the long-nosed, long-legged youth looked like the top man in his trade. With his countryman Merv Lincoln tagging along behind him, Herb loped over the grassy turf track with the stride of an astonished ostrich. He stuck to the early pacemakers with ease. When Texas' Drew Dunlap and Maryland's Burr Grim pulled him through a 2:00.5 first half, Herb knew he was running a hot mile. In the third quarter, his pacemakers began to burn out, and Herb...
...Melbourne, Aussie Herb Elliott, 19, ground out his second better-than-four-minute-mile in a week. Elliott was clocked in 3:58.7, just 2 yds. ahead of his countryman Merv Lincoln (3:59). But winning was a disappointment: what Elliott had wanted to do was break John Landy's Australian record...
...Having already decided that he had no more good mile races left in his system for this season, Don Bowden, the only better-than-four-minute miler in the U.S., traveled to the National A.A.U. championships in Dayton and ran a slow third behind Australia's Merv Lincoln (4:06.1) and U.C.L.A. Senior Bob Seaman. In the 440-yd. run, remarkable Reggie Pearman, 33, ran the fastest quarter mile of his life (0:46.4) to win the title just ten years after he won his first A.A.U. championship by beating Mal Whitfield...
Summer Holiday (Tues. & Thurs. 7:45 p.m., CBS) features Singer Betty Ann Grove, who used to be a TV colleague of Bert Parks and has absorbed much of his manic, eye-batting vitality. The co-star is Singer Merv Griffin. The show was created by Irving Mansfield, who last summer created almost exactly the same show for the same sponsor, but it was then called Summertime, U.S.A. and starred Singers Teresa Brewer and Mel Torme...
...perfect order was an anachronism, a noticeable incongruity, in conquered Germany. British guards on a bridge in Bëmervörde, noting and suspecting the perfection of Herr Hitzinger's papers, dumped him in a prison camp. After three days he declared to the camp commandant: "I am Heinrich Himmler...