Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...
...beat Katharine Dewey and her three teammates. Roaring down Lake Placid's Mount Van Hoevenberg run-iJ? miles of whizzing around 25 razzle-dazzle curves-Miss Dewey turned in times of 1 :08.08, 1 :08.52, 1:07.07 1:07.10. Her time for the four heats (4 min., 30.71 sec.) was a full second better than that of Big Bill Linney, winner of four successive major championships...
...Long-striding Charles ("Chuck") Fenske: the Baxter Mile, feature race of the New York Athletic Club Games; in 4 min., 07.4 sec., equaling the fastest time ever recorded for a competitive mile indoors; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It was Fenske's second 4.07.4 mile this season, his fifth successive victory over the nation's top milers, including Glenn Cunningham...
...Heel-&-Toe-Stepping A. J. Stubbs: the mile walking championship of New South Wales; in 6 min., 15⅓ sec.; setting a new world's walking record for a mile; at Sydney. Previous record...
...Bespectacled, 24-year-old Charles Fenske: the Wanamaker Mile; in 4 min., 7.4 sec., second fastest indoor mile on record; outrunning Old Iron Legs Glenn Cunningham by three yards; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Among the 16,000 onlookers was famed Finn Paavo Nurmi (see p. 38), whose 4:12 mile on the same Garden boards set a world's record in 1925. Present world's record: Cunningham...