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Also, Michael A. Lerner, Lawrence Lipson, Harrison G. Lowry, John P. Lynch, Donald G. Marshall, Jeffrey S. Mehlman, Theodore H. Moran, Miles Morgan, Lester R. Morss, Martin A. Nurmi, Roger D. Nussbaum, Charles H. Rammelkamp, Michael Reiss, Sherman Robinson. David N. Rosen, William D. Rothman, Stephen R. Sacks, Robert M. Shapley, Henry F. Smith III, Thomas E. Staley, Phillip G. Stanley, A. Thomas Tymoczko, Owen S. Walker, James D. Wilkinson, and Peter W. Williams...
There he would have seen physical fitness at its competitive best. There announcer Charlie Dale might have pointed out over the loudspeaker: "You are observing college athletes in action who are running faster than Paavo Nurmi ever did in this country; doing things that Jim Thorpe would have considered impossible and Thorpe, as you know, was acclaimed the most versatile athlete in history...
...timer immediately thought of John Paul Jones, Norman Tabor, Paavo Nurmi, Ted Meredith, Bill Bingham and Bill Bonthron, and it was difficult to realize that today's collegians are running faster than those national and internationally famous milers and half-milers...
...FREEMAN of B. U. and Larry Rawson of B. C. will meet in a mile race at Brandeis tomorrow, and they'll be down around 4:15, as fast as Paavo Nurmi ran in the Stadium in 1925. . . . If Ted Kennedy wants an attraction he could invite those two milers to compete against Harvard's Mullin, Fitzgerald, Hamlin and Howard. Yale's Bobby Mack, IC4-A two-mile champion and a 4:10 miler, Laris and Jennison of Dartmouth, Eric Groon of Cornell and Charlie Buchta...
...secret that other track stars have long taken money under the table. But they do their best not to get caught. Once in a while, as in the case of Finland's great Miler Paavo Nurmi, their financial shenanigans have come to light, and resulted in suspensions from amateur competition. In the U.S. the hardheaded high brass of the A.A.U. have cracked down on the few flagrant cases they could hardly overlook. Little has been done, however, to liberalize the main cause of the cheating-the outdated ceiling of $15 a day on athletes' expense accounts...