Word: paavo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another Golden Era of sport is to follow World War II, as it did World War I, the Paavo Nurmi of tomorrow may well be raven-haired Leslie MacMitchell, who developed his legs running up & down the subway stairs of his native Manhattan...
...Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans when Finn Paavo Nurmi ran two miles in 8 min., 58.2 sec. That was 16 years ago. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, barrel-chested, short-legged Gregory Rice, 25-year-old ex-Notre Damer, made mighty Nurmi's record look poky. Fitter-pattering around to the tune of Notre Dame's Victory March, Runner Rice whittled the two-mile world's record down to 8:53.4-nearly three seconds faster than the accepted world's record, indoors or out. "Incredible!" gasped U. S. track fans...
...world's distance-running nonpareil. Five times last summer, in his native Finland, he had broken world's records at distances ranging from two miles to 10,000 meters (a little over six miles)-"unbreakable" marks once held by his idol, coach and traveling companion, famed Paavo Nurmi...
...fund-drive was too cumbersome for U. S. restlessness. Americans last week formed committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
...Bespectacled, 24-year-old Charles Fenske: the Wanamaker Mile; in 4 min., 7.4 sec., second fastest indoor mile on record; outrunning Old Iron Legs Glenn Cunningham by three yards; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Among the 16,000 onlookers was famed Finn Paavo Nurmi (see p. 38), whose 4:12 mile on the same Garden boards set a world's record in 1925. Present world's record: Cunningham...