Word: pits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the javelin seemingly all over and Army men in first and second places, Tom Blodgett came over from the pole vault pit to take his last two throws. On his next-to-last attempt he threw the spear 184 ft., 1 in. to snatch the victory away from Army. Then he went back to the pole vault and, on his final try there, won the event with a 13-ft. effort. Sam Halaby cleared a surprising 12 ft., 6 in. to tie Army's John Young for second...
...middle distances may be rough. Dave Gray and Ron Salter finished one-two in the 600 and Bill Hanne won the 1000 in the Cadets' 64 1/3-44 2/3 win last season. Healy could also help Army here. Against these skilled runners the Crimson will pit captain Albie Gordon and Dave Brahms in the 440 and Art Cahn in the 880. Gordon and Brahms have improved immensely, and Cahn should be more at home at the shorter outdoor distance...
Many an Illinois daily considered the story front-page news. A six-year-old boy in Normal, Ill., had disappeared, and divers were brought in from Chicago to plumb an ice-covered gravel pit that the child usually crossed on the way home from school. But the Bloomington Pantagraph (circ. 39,384) last week steadfastly played the story on page 3. Reason: it was local news (Bloomington and Normal are twin cities), and the Pantagraph never uses local stories on the front page...
DEADLINES : "We are prisoners of the newsroom clock. It is crowding us farther off the narrow edge of journalism to which we cling and into the pit of entertainment, circulation gimmicks and advertising reader notices...
...John Thomas. Unheralded and almost unnoticed as the more spectacular racing events swirled around the track, Thomas broke the world's indoor record for the high jump twice in the last three weeks. This week in the Millrose Games at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Thomas will pit his new 6 ft. 11¾ in. indoor record against Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas, who holds the U.S. outdoor record...