Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iron Curtain was successfully scaled by the U.S.'s Olympic Hammer-Throw Champion Harold Connolly, 25, who, having shaken free of Red tape, planned this week to marry his true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek as best man, Roman Catholic Connolly, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was slated to take his Protestant bride in a civil ceremony (for the Red authorities' benefit), followed by Catholic and Protestant rites...
Thayer Middle copped the intramural boxing crown, scoring 15 points to 11 for runner-up Weld North. Matthews North captured 10 to take third place...
...Clock Watcher. The railbirds booed only because they were hoping for a record. But Runner Ron runs against competitors, not the clock. Since his teen-age days in Dublin's Catholic University School he has been content to jog along just fast enough to win. His better than four-minute victory in the 1,500-meter Olympic run in Melbourne last fall gave him all the proof he cares to have that he can go as fast...
...Delany expects to hit his peak as a runner by 1960. But even then there may be no one around to force him to a record. There is a good chance that after he retires the admirers of Ireland's Olympic champion will be able to boast that Delany beat them...
...fastest miler, on hand to watch him perform, Australia's Herb Elliott, 19, spun around the fine track at Melbourne's Olympic Stadium in a spectacular 4:00.4. Sure that he had seen his probable successor, retired Champion Landy announced: "Here is the greatest natural runner I have ever seen...