Word: poling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungry for the opening of the indoor track season, 16,000 fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden for last week's Millrose Games. They hoped for a 16-ft. pole vault, a 4:06 mile, an 8:50 two miles. They didn't get them; but they were satisfied with what they...
...Most spectacular athlete in the U.S. is nonchalant, 27-year-old Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam, a Piedmont, Calif, schoolteacher with a catlike spring in his legs. The world's only 15-ft. pole vaulter, Warmerdam has soared to that height or more 27 times in the past three years, has made fans expect a new record every time he grips bamboo. Last week the Flying Dutchman worked into the groove, nearly reaching the mezzanine with each leap. But the best he could do was 15 ft. 1½ in.-a new Garden record, but 6¼ inches under...
...board of directors last week filed out of their board room in Manhattan's Steinway Hall and announced the new holder of the most prestigious post in U.S. music. The post-musical director and conductor of the New York Philharmonic-will be filled by a Dalmatian-born Pole, Artur Rodzinski, bushy-haired, gangling present conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...
...Rulka Langer is a Vassar-educated Pole who, with her two children and her mother, lived in a six-room apartment in Warsaw during its three-week siege. Her book about those weeks is far from being literature, but it has its moments as a human document...
...Junior Varsity mile runs and the Jayvee two miler, while Tufts took the "A" two-mile. The field events were solid for the home team, as Garland took the shot put and high jump. Tom Holyoke outdistanced the broad-jumpers, and Gerry Lelane tied for top honors in the pole vault...