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Chasing butterflies around his home; in Melbourne, Australia gave amateur Entomologist John Landy, 24, the legs and lungs of a miler. Watching the great Czech Champion Emil Zatopek win three Olympic titles taught him some of the technical tricks of the track star's trade...
...award was established this spring by a group of Bingham's friends. During his undergraduate days Bingham was an outstanding half-miler, and later served for 25 years as athletic director. The award will be given annually to the member of the graduating class who, because of his "integrity, courage, leadership and ability on the athletic field, has best served the high purposes of Harvard" as exemplified by Bingham during his years of service...
...Launching a fund to preserve historic churches in Britain, Prime Minister Churchill dispatched Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister and three other runners to dash through London's traffic in their track suits delivering checks to different churches...
...switched to the discus at the West Coast Relays and beat World Record Holder Fortune Gordien with a toss of 184 ft. 1½ in. Only two men have tossed the discus farther: Gordien and Olympic Record Holder Sim Iness. ¶At Indianapolis, qualifying for the Memorial Day 500-miler, Jack McGrath set a new record for the four-lap (ten miles) sprint of 141.033 m.p.h. Old (1952) record: 139.034 m.p.h., set by the late Chet Miller. ¶ In Moscow, World Champion Chess Player Mikhail Botvinnik, 43, retained his title after a long (24 games) match with Challenger Vassily Smyslov...
Into the jaws of American commercial television last week flew Britain's suddenly famed runner, Roger Bannister, the world's first four-minute miler (TIME, May 17). But just as the jaws were about to snap tight, cables crackled across the Atlantic, Parliament rocked and anxious hands reached out to preserve Roger Bannister for purer things...