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...lightest topics be discussed at mealtimes. The conversation volleyed from the high price of neckties to reincarnation (one sprinter wanted to come back as a dog, another as a race horse). Then it lit on the most dyspeptic subject of all - track. The lean steeplechaser asked a half-miler: "Does all that sugar and dextrose you guys fill up on help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Said the half-miler: "Sure, but it's mostly mental. Your running's about 90% in your head. The nervous energy you build up before a race carries you the first 200 yards. You're not breathing any harder than when you started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes to Glory | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

First Down. One of the mighty had already fallen: Miler Gil Dodds, Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Missing the Boar | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Oxford, Ohio, Negro Harrison Dillard set a new kind of record by winning his 67th consecutive race in collegiate competition. The old record-holder for consecutive triumphs: Notre Dame's once great two-miler, Greg Rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winning Ways | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...first time in six years, the Iron Deacon failed to show up for a workout. His coach, Boston College's Jack Ryder, bought a newspaper on his way home from the gym and found out what had happened to the greatest U.S. miler-he was in the hospital, with mumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dodds Mumped | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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