Word: truex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grotesque rhythm. For three laps, he kept on, then fell. Before anyone could reach him, he was up again, shambling forward, dazed. He fell again, and was carried from the field on a stretcher. In quick succession, Russia's Hubert Pyarnakivi and the U.S.'s Max Truex managed to finish, and then they too went into that eerie dance of exhaustion. Both Americans were rushed to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, the Russian to his hotel room, and all three were given intravenous injections of water, salt, sugar and vitamins. Said U.S. Track Coach Frank Potts: "When...
...Foreign runners are traditionally superior in distance races, but victories by 19-year-old University of Oregon Freshman Dyrol Burleson at 1,500 meters (3:47.5),Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger at 5,000 meters (14:47.6), and little (5ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.) Max Truex at 10,000 meters (31:22.4) gave the U.S. high hopes for next year...
...would be an invitational mile. Graduate student Josy Barthel, the Luxemburg Olympic champ and winner in the recent K. of C. and B.A.A. meets, would be a certain entrant, and invitations would also go out to milers like Wes Santoo of the University of Kansas, Fred Wilt, and Lon Truex...
Plymouth Playhouse (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). Jamie, with Brandon de Wilde, Ernest Truex...
...Milwaukee, Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Ken Wiesner broke his own indoor high-jump record by going up & over the bar at 6 ft. 9⅞ in. in the Milwaukee Journal games. Wiesner's old mark (TIME, Feb. 2): 6 ft. 9½ in. Moments later, Len Truex, onetime Ohio State runner, whipped around the track in the fastest mile of the indoor season...