Word: poled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High jumpers Michael Zara and John Bunker tied for first in the high jump at 5 feet 7 inches, and Paul Rodgers copped the pole vault at 9 feet 6 inches...
Track mentors Jaako Mikkola and Bill Neufeld are mildly optimistic about 1942's tract outlook, but are worried about the weight events and particularly the pole vault...
...have some pole-vaulters," Jasko said yesterday. "I don't care whether they've never touched a pole before or not. In fact I'd almost prefer them to be beginners as long as they've got a sense of coordination...
Twenty years ago the title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one of its most lionized personalities. Women swooned at his concerts, pursued him to beg a lock of his long red-gold hair. Kings and cabbageheads applauded him. Even among people who never went near a concert hall "Paderoosky" was a name to conjure with...
Today, 77-year-old, white-haired Paderewski lives quietly in a sprawling baroque villa at Merges, Switzerland. His careers as No. 1 Pianist and No. 1 Pole are both long past. This week, with the collaboration of Actress-Author Mary Lawton, he publishes a volume of memoirs* covering the first of these two careers (1860-1914), promises another volume at a later date...