Word: strides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appears to play with so little effort that he's deceiving," adds Dallmar. "But watch him when Penn needs two points. He really moves-he has the speed and the long stride to make the most of every opportunity...
...premiere last week and there, before a large audience of well-wishers (and an estimated 9,000,000 who listened on radio), fell flat on it's libretto. Continental capitals, more used to new operas than the U.S., had taken The Rake pretty much in stride since its Venetian premiere (TIME, Sept.24, 1951). But as the first modern work the Met had produced in five years, it seemed pretty effete. Written by Poet W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman as an 18th century moral fable, The Rake's book pointed its moral more in irony than in earnestness...
...crack of the starter's gun, Mal Whitfield broke from his crouch and eased into his power-glide stride. The four-man field in the 500-yd. race whirled around the first turn, Whitfield dead last. Then Whitfield began to pass the others, one by one, in short but conclusive bursts of speed. His theory, which has carried him to two consecutive Olympic gold medals at 800 meters: "Pass them big-then they won't try to come back...
Going into the last lap, Mal Whitfield had only one man ahead of him: Jamaica's Herb McKenley, world-record holder at 440 yds. Shortening his 8-ft. stride to fast-stepping six-footers, Whitfield visibly pulled himself together for the final burst. He passed McKenley "big," whirled into the final turn in front, breasted the red-yarn tape alone as the Madison Square Garden crowd of 12,364 rose to its feet and roared approval. The crowd roared again when the time was announced: 0.56.6, a new indoor record...
World-Record Program. "Marvelous Mal" never runs a poor race, win or lose. Fortnight ago in Boston, he equaled the world indoor record of 1:10.2 for 600 yards (TIME, Feb. 9), but his deceptively effortless stride made it appear that he could have done even better. An official criticized him for not breaking the record, accused him of not trying. Ordinarily good-natured and tractable, Whitfield later bristled: "What did he want, blood...