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...Russia's Amazonian Shot-Putter Galina Zybina, the shot event in a Soviet meet, with a heave of 50 ft. 7.11 in., bettering her own world mark (set in this year's Olympics) by nearly 5 in.; in Moscow...
...Shot-Putter Parry O'Brien's toss of 57 ft. 4¾ in., a new A.A.U. record and an upset of World Champion Jim Fuchs...
...ground^ he is anything but a swashbuckler. Back home in Lubbock, Texas, where he has a wife and two children, Davis likes to putter in the kitchen (specialties: steak and pot roasts). The seventh of nine children, Davis went up for a $2.50 ride in a barnstormer's crate when he was 13. From then on, he knew what his life's work was going to be. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942, flew 266 missions in propeller-driven P-475 and P-515 from Philippine bases, downed seven Japanese planes...
Other stars that Walker "persuaded" to go to Yale included Jim Fuchs world champion shot-putter, 1950 football captain Brad Quackenbush and lettermen Jack Lohnes, Jim Rowe, and Bob Parcella. "I've sent boys there from all over the country," Walker says, "and I don't get a nickel for it, either...
...take by both sides, representatives of the U.S.G.A, and the R. & A. finally got together on some standardization of conflicting regulations. Most important changes and concessions: 1) abolishing the stymie; 2) legalizing the smaller (by .06 in.) British ball (now banned in the U.S.) and the U.S. center-shafted putter (now banned in Britain); 3) penalizing, both by loss of stroke and distance, a ball that is lost, unplayable or out of bounds...