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Married. Jim Ryun, 21, world's fastest miler (record: 3 min. 51.1 sec.), now winding up his college career at the University of Kansas; and Anne Snider, 21, Kansas State cheerleader whose introduction to Jim came when he refused her autograph request after setting a mile world record in 1966; in Bay Village, Ohio...
...only other strong performers on the B.U. squad are John Winskowicz--a 6'8" high jumper--and two good long distance men--senior Pete Hoss and a 4:09 sophomore miler named Naughton...
Hunt has most of this year's freshman cross country team, including Bobby Seals, Rick Jurgens, Phil Lichenstein, Mike Koerner, and Andy Meltzoff, for the distance events, but the standout so far has been Jim Davis, a half-miler who ran in the seventh and eighth positions for the cross country team this fall...
Davis, who ran a 1:55 half mile last year, has been the most impressive in his own particular event, Hunt said yesterday, and he should be a top-flight half-miler...
...week begin with the shot-from-a-cannon entrance of Johnny Olson, the only professional warm-up man in TV. This is a gruesome but, by the laws of TV at least, a necessary specialty. Ten minutes or so before air time, Olson crouches backstage like a half-miler, waits until he feels the "right psychological moment," and then bolts out before the audience, shouting "Hey! Helloooo everybodeeee!" As the APPLAUSE sign flashes on and off, he bounds about like a cheerleader and cries: "Good morning, everybodeeee! Good morning! Say good morning, everybodeeee! [Audience shyly replies.] Oooh, that...