Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With his countryman John Landy, the world's 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...
...make a "hit," or as the play bill calls it, a "wildly romantic comedy." The specifics of the plot involve the wife of a shipping executive who spends here summers in a New York hideaway writing "Lusty, busty, novels" with an Andover French teacher. Perhaps Shaw could have spun a witty and engaging bit of whimsy on this not unpromising view of the war between the sexes. Miss Green does...
...Evan Llewelyn Evans boomed out advice to a deferential huddle of ad-agency men. Last week Veteran Adman Emerson Foote, 50, a prototype for one of the leading characters in Wakeman's fiction, took the advice in real life, chin-chinned with himself and with his associates and spun the compass. He thereupon quit as executive vice president of McCann-Erickson, world's second largest ad agency (after J. Walter Thompson), surrendering a salary "well up in six figures." Said he: "Last year I flew 64,000 scheduled airline miles and found myself concentrating on meeting problems...
...over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips. The few crewmen who slept managed little more than brief dozes ("You can't relax," said...
...station KFDA's Art Holt of Amarillo, Texas set a world's nonstop endurance record for disk jockeys: six days and six nights. Last week Disk Jockey Ray Briem, 26, of Salt Lake City's KLUB, putting on LPs for trips to the bathroom and catnaps, spun, gabbed and wheezed his way to a new record: six days, six nights and six hours...