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What makes Sagan sprint is the realization that metropolitan dailies today are leaving an ever-widening void for small neighborhood papers to fill (TIME, Dec. 2). In no city in the U.S. is this more true than in sprawling Chicago, whose press is frequently apathetic to corruption. Says Press Baronet Sagan: "A neighborhood paper has the local, personal function, the bread-and-butter job, of telling who married whom-and you'd be surprised how many people care. The second function is concern for civic affairs. A city is a terribly complicated animal. It's even harder...
...point, the strain of running a longer race than is his custom began to tell on Anderson. He faltered briefly and was immediately passed by all four of the men who until then had been running behind him. In the last lap, however, he managed to muster a finishing sprint sufficient to overtake Jenkins and he narrowly missed catching Lockerbie...
...Experimenter in Holland will learn to ride a bicycle, if he doesn't know how, and will come to consider a 10-mile bike ride a short sprint. He will discover that the raincoat, and not wooden shoes, is the most essential article in the Dutch national costume...
Steiner scampered loose on a ten yard run early in the first quarter to put Eliot ahead. The score remained 6-0 until the second half, when Steiner again burst free on a fifty yard jaunt in the third quarter and on a 60 yard sprint in the fourth period...
Captain Brandy Harrison and Bullpup Bill Bachrach staged a neck-and-neck sprint battle down the last 50 yards, with the Eli ace finally giving up. Harrison finished third, a scant ten yards behind Carroll...