Word: mins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Athletic Association track meet, pony-legged Gregory Rice, Notre Dame '39, ran two miles in 9 min, 3.3 sec., for his twelfth consecutive victory in two years of big-time distance racing...
Patty Aspinall, 14-year-old Indianapolis minnow, set a new U. S. record for the 220-yd. breast stroke - 3 min., 7.8 sec., 1.2 sec. better than the mark set last summer by Japanese Fujiko Katsutani of Honolulu. Little Patty used the exhausting butterfly stroke (an overarm stroke as in the crawl, with both arms moving together) for the full 220 yards...
Nancy Merlci, perky 15-year-old Portland, Ore. schoolgirl, who took up swimming five years ago to help recovery from infantile paralysis, kept her 440-yd. freestyle title in the near-record-breaking time of 5 min...
Helene Rains, 16, won the 300-yd. medley (breast stroke, backstroke, crawl) in 4 min., 4.9 sec. Besides swimming, Miss Rains, a Manhattan music student, plays the piano, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, flute and saxophone, studies tap, toe, adagio and acrobatic dancing. In spare moments she paints...
Helen Perry, 21, of Cleveland, in the 100-yd. backstroke final, beat glamorous Gloria Callen, 17, defending champion, in a fingernail finish-which took the judges fully five minutes to decide. Time: i min...