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...Ladies and gentlemen," the announcer said, "the Dutch national anthem!" At the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden, 16,000 track fans rose respectfully while the band tootled an unfamiliar tune in honor of The Netherlands' miler, stringy Willy Slykhuis (rhymes, roughly, with dike mouse).* Then the band played the Swedish national anthem, for Miler Ingvar Bengtsson, and a baritone sang The Star-Spangled Banner. The crowd sat back to wait for Slykhuis and Bengtsson. No foreigner had ever won the Wanamaker Mile, but now that the mighty Gil Dodds had retired, the invaders seemed to have a fine...
...debut. For weeks, track circles had buzzed with rumors about Gehrmann's sensational time trials in Madison: his coaches claimed to have clocked him in 4:06.1, only .8 sec. off Gil Dodds's indoor record. If that was not a mistake, Gehrmann could be the best miler on the boards...
...Dodds, still the country's top miler, worked out at Briggs Cage yesterday either for exercise, recreation, or perhaps to show Crimson trackmen how it's done. Dodds wasn't just on a sight-seeing tour. He precedes his Wheaton College (Illinois) track team, which he is entering in the annual B.A.A. Games Saturday. Coach Jaakko Mikkola was not particularly awed by Dodds's performance. He noted that the "flying parson" was "out of condition and quite a bit below his usual time...
...Ruby, veteran quarter-miler, is a doubtful starter. Coach Jaakko Mikkola said yesterday that "he has a very bad cold and has not been down all this week...
William Dickinson, a 1939 Fellow, moved from the Minneapolis UP office to head the entire Foreign Bureau in New York; Bill Miler (1940) rose from a reporter on the Cleveland Press to News Editor of Time; John Crider (also 1940) stepped up from a staffer's spot on the New York Times to the editorship of the Boston Herald...