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...tall (6 ft.) and thin (146 Ibs.), like the hand of a stopwatch. His toothpick legs must be pampered; he ran seven races in two days last year and pulled a hamstring muscle. Although a chronic worrywart, Patton usually manages to control his worrying. In his crowded schedule there are special times for fretting, just as there are set times to go to classes at the University of Southern California and a set time to be home for dinner (he has a wife and two-year-old daughter). The proof of Patton's iron control under pressure...
André quickly learned the tricks of composing with a stopwatch in his hand. Last year, he got his first big breaks: scoring music for The Hucksters, playing piano in Frank Sinatra's It Happened in Brooklyn...
...flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903, their plane rested on a car which ran on a monorail. After a 35-to 40-ft. run, the plane lifted from the rail, and in Orville Wright's own account "climbed a few feet, stalled, then settled to the ground. My stopwatch showed that the machine had been in the air just 3½ seconds." It was not until nearly a year later, on a cow pasture near Dayton, Ohio, that the Wrights used the derrick (see cut) catapult method which Reader Hatch describes...
Five days later, most of the nation's other top milers, who had never come close enough to Dodds to be exposed, joyfully rushed for the Baxter Mile starting line in Madison Square Garden. In 32 previous races, it had been Dodds against a stopwatch (his recent Wanamaker Mile world's indoor record: 4:05.3). This time the Baxter was more of a contest but less of a race. Penn State's 24-year-old Gerry Karver, who ran last in the Wanamaker, won the Baxter...
...only vaguely aware of the smells and sounds of the race. His stopwatch clicked as Driver Holland whizzed by. After rapidly computing seconds into m.p.h., Moore said:"Give him two more." A black pit-board with Holland's name on it was held up the next time he roared past the pits. Seeing the chalked message -" + 2"-Holland stepped up his speed by two miles an hour. After 50 miles, the other driver, Mauri Rose, bobbed his hand as he whirled past to show he understood his "O.K." message from the pit; his speed was just right. Moore...