Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Cerutty's floating pronouns, everyone within earshot understood. He was talking about Villanova's Ron Delany, the frail, pale Irishman who, never running faster than he has to, has been almost unbeatable ever since he won the 1,500 meters in record time at the 1956 Olympics. Aussie Elliott was casually planning to race him right off the track. Neither Herb nor his coach showed any concern about the presence of Hungarian Refugee Laszlo Tabori...
...more turns at bat. Week's end saw the start of hearings on a series of taxpayers' suits to stop the Dodgers from building their new ballpark. But if the results of the referendum stand up in court, unofficial scorers will surely write into the record book that it was a portly old relief pitcher named Walter O'Malley who came on in the final innings to win the game...
...make a brief challenge, but Elliott stayed in command. He had no noticeable finishing kick; he merely ran fast all the way. Coach Cerutty stood at the head of the stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition was only the clock, and he fell a few ticks short. Time for the mile: 3:58.1. Tabori was second, a shade on the wrong side of four minutes. Well beaten, Delany hung on to third...
Since it takes a hefty pot of gold to meet such competition, big companies are taking over what used to be an industry of small firms. The industry's biggest is Avon (1957 sales: a record $100,379,695), which sells its products door to door with the help of some 100,000 representatives. But the liveliest is fast-growing Revlon, run by aggressive Charles Revson, 51. Revson founded his company in 1932, built it up to a $95 million gross last year by advertising the elegance and glamorous names of his products, popularizing such ideas as matching lipstick...
...Columbus, Ohio, when an elementary school teacher told her class to write themes on what they would like to be when they grow up, Darrell Miller, 9, said that he was interested in banking, added: "To be a president of a bank you have to have a good record and no time...