Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undergraduate at Cambridge, Norbert Stephen Erleigh was in a hurry to make a million pounds, then quit. Said Norby Erleigh: "I think it could be done swiftest in South Africa." A wealthy Rand pioneer's son, Erleigh had the financial backing; he soon picked up the mining experience. In 1933, he helped Abraham Sundel Hersov form the Anglo-Transvaal Investment Co., Ltd., and together they made a killing in Rand mines. But "Bob" Hersov was too cautious for bumptious, erratic Norby Erleigh. By 1935 Erleigh, then 32, had broken away from Anglovaal, and he had made his first million...
There were two hot horses in the Brooklyn Handicap last week, and if either won, Whirlaway's alltime money-winning record ($561,161) was sure to fall. Texas-born Assault, a chestnut, the swiftest thing on horseshoes in 1947, needed only $22,591 to catch up with Whirlaway. Stymie, another Texas horse -who usually does better when Assault is not around-needed even less...
Nobody had to tell the Amateur Athletic Union that many of the swiftest U.S. runners were Negroes. Yet the A.A.U. decided to hold its June championship track meet in Dixie, at San Antonio, where any Negro athlete would think two or three times about appearing...
...Swiftest 100 yards ever swum by man: 49.4 seconds, by Yale's knock-kneed, rusty-haired freestyler, Alan Ford (now an ensign...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...