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...time under 4:10 seemed highly unlikely. For the first half mile Bannister was content to stay with the pack (paced at a stodgy 2:06.2 by Stewart Ray). But before the four runners hit the three-quarter mark, Bannister, clearly impatient with the pace, lengthened his rangy stride and spurted to the lead...
Golfer Hogan (Glenn Ford) and his wife Valerie (Anne Baxter) struggle along on shrinking funds from tournament to tournament before he hits a champion's stride. He practices interminably, frets over his game, the antagonism of a sport columnist, his victories over a happy-go-lucky friend (Dennis O'Keefe) resembling the real-life Jimmy Demaret (who, like Golfers Sam Snead and Gary Middlecoff, plays himself in the movie). Then comes the near-fatal crash...
...Vassar girl takes the various traditional requirements in stride, claiming they are ridiculous, but following them nevertheless: whenever the senior marching song, "Salve," is sung, the undergraduates clap; all undergraduates, except the seniors, who wear their caps and gowns, wear white to Convocation and to the first meeting of the College Government Association: the selected sophomores carry the daisy chain at every commencement; and the freshmen choose a class tree annually, marking their liberation form the ignominy of freshman duties...
Peterson stated that Goldfarb brought up a basic weakness of the Council. He quickly added, "I think, however, we should take our weakness in stride...
...local problems. Nonsmoking, nondrinking, Lee has no advice to thrust on those who do. He likes to tell of one friend who drinks deeply and then often calls Lee up to tell him what's wrong with S.M.U. Football is another thing that President Lee takes in stride. It does not worry him overmuch that S.M.U. consistently has one of the best football teams in the U.S. Texas likes good football, and so does Umphrey...