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While Cahn, a varsity half miler, was the first across the line, Dyke Benjamin ran the fastest time of 18:16 for the cross country distance. Cahn's time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cahn Wins University Handicap | 9/27/1958 | See Source »

Last week all Dublin was talking of the most incredible mile race ever run, and of the lanky, 20-year-old Australian who won it. There was no longer any doubt that Herb Elliott was the greatest miler of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Miracle Mile | 8/18/1958 | See Source »

...yourself in the heats," said Australia's Merv Lincoln after he loafed through a fast 4:07.9 mile to qualify for the National A.A.U. championships at Bakersfield, Calif. Aussie Herb Elliott felt the same way. But Herb Elliott, who at 20 shows every sign of becoming the greatest miler ever, seems constitutionally incapable of not cracking some sort of record every time he puts on his spikes. He breezed through his heat in 4:01.4, a new meet mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster & Faster | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Part of the reason for the team's comparatively dismal showing lies in the loss of quarter-miler French Anderson, of Eddie Martin in the distances, and of Doc Bennett, a promising pole vaulter. There were also injuries to two-miler Dyke Benjamin and dashman Sandy Dodge, as well as Jim Doty's bother-some skin rash which reduced his effectiveness in the shot...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Track Team Has Average Season | 5/28/1958 | See Source »

Sighted Sub, Sank Same. In Knoxville, Tenn., track and field officials disqualified Miler Jerry Long, who put on a stirring burst of speed while finishing a high-school race -because he had slipped into the race on the last lap when Teammate John Looney dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 26, 1958 | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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