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...year-old DeMar has won the classic seven times, and last year, though held to 82nd place, still managed to outrun Chrisman and, as he says, "a whole flock of others." He's planning to finish at least in the top 60 this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/16/1954 | See Source »

...McCurdy is hopeful that his team may upset the Green. The meet will probably hinge on captain Hal Gerry, who will meet Dartmouth's Clarkson for the third time. Gerry defeated him last fall, but Clarkson came back to outrun Gerry in a two-mile indoor meet last winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cross Country Team Faces Indians Today | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

Corporations and local governments are in the midst of the biggest bond-selling campaign in U.S. history. Some financial men had worried that the unprecedented non-Government demand for long-term money, added to the Treasury's huge needs, might soon outrun the supply. But by all signs last week, there was no cause to worry. Investors bought more than $400 million worth of private and local debt issues, one of the largest single week's totals on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Bond Boom | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

...airport outside Paris, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, 36, spirited daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, nosed a Mystere II French jet fighter into a near-vertical dive, cracked the sound barrier at 687.5 m.p.h. to become the world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...trials had never before seen a dog or a pen. As Rock and Art Allen waited tensely at home plate, the dog's unruly charges were let loose in far center field. Shouted Allen: "Go on wide away!" In a furry blur, Rock shot off on his "outrun," circling wide and closing in slowly for the "lift." As the sheep testily pawed the turf, Rock calmly fixed them with a mesmeric eye. This nearly hypnotic power is the proud sheep dog's most important quality, and sheepmen claim that a dog must be born with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Hypnotic Dog | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

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