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While television is emptying movie houses across the nation (TIME, Feb. 10), business is booming for Kansas City's Elmer C. Rhoden Jr., 35, president of Commonwealth Theaters, a Midwestern chain of 102 theaters. Rhoden's box-office secret: "teenage pictures," denned by him as "rock 'n' roll, drag races, horror stories, that sort, of thing...
...Buffalo, the mile-relay team of Manhattan's Grand Street Boys Club (Olympic Champions Herb McKenley Andy Stanfield, George Rhoden and Mal Whitfield) breezed through their event in 3 min. 14.4 sec., an unofficial indoor record...
...Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, who tied his own 1948 Olympic record to take the 800-meter run in 1 min. 49.2 sec., later missed his try for a second gold medal in the 400-meter run (won by Jamaica's George Rhoden in a record...
...Crimson's Ron Berman went all out to take the 600, but wound up a tired fifth. Berman opened up on the gun lap, but was passed by the field in the last 80 yards. George Rhoden, top Olympic prospect, eventually won, going away from Mal Whitfield...
Berman will be racing in his third big-time 600 in the last two years. Last year he finished third twice against the best runners in the East. Tonight he will be up against two Olympic prospects, veteran Mal Whitfield and George Rhoden. Whitfield, however, has been having his troubles indoors, while Berman has shown he can stick within range of Rhoden...