Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for further artillery officer training. Spreyer, a dangerous climax runner, had been expected to be the mainstay of the Crimson backfield this fall...
...Correspondents. Best-seller among correspondents' books was William Shirer's Berlin Diary ($3), which by breaking down Europe's momentous years into momentous days gave his record the breathlessness of headlines. Runner-up was Virginia Cowles's Looking for Trouble ($3). Author Cowles, not one of the great by-liners, wrote current history with some of the fresh realism of the little maid who from answering doorbells and making up the beds, sees everybody, finds out every thing, at last knows more about what is going on in the house than the masters themselves. Other books...
Track experts consider MacMitchell the most promising runner ever developed in the U.S. Having an extraordinarily low pulse of 38 (72 is normal), relentless perseverance, perfect mental attitude and Boy-Scout living habits, he has run within two seconds of every world's record for half a dozen distances, from 440 yards to 1,500 meters. At a mile, he has already tied Glenn Cunningham's recognized indoor world's record...
...YORK--Bobby Riggs of Chicago, national amateur tennis champion, and his runner-up, Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal., turned professional today for guarantees of $25,000 each...
...winner and the runner-up, who will have the post of assistant '45 manager, will be in complete charge of the game with the Yale Freshmen early in March. These two men and three others will be invited to return next year to compete for the Varsity managership...