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...MONEY: MIRACLE-MILER ROGER BANNISTER...
...rich Greek god from the Middle West who is soul-sick for no clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into a dead pigeon. The others boozing, cynical or hitting the Prufrock-bottom of resignation-live by remembering. Almost everybody sooner or later tries to shoot...
...Third brother Will, an Oxford miler who once dreamed that he was "careering about ... on a great horse . . . engaged in a cavalry duel with sabres with Mr. Winston Churchill." (In those days, Churchill was a Liberal; the Lawrences were Tories to a man.) Will became a teacher in India, joined the Royal Flying Corps at the outbreak of World War I, was killed (at 26) within a week of his arrival in France...
...expected Landy to have an easy time of it. He would be stepping out for the first time against the second-fastest miler in the world: England's Dr. Roger Bannister, first man in history to clock better than four minutes. And this time both men would be running without the split-second pacesetting of Chris Chata-way, B.E.G. 3-mile champion, who had paced both runners in their four-minute-breaking miles...
Bannister had lasted just long enough. A few yards past the finish line, he collapsed, having broken four minutes again (3:58.8) and beaten the world's fastest miler in the process...