Word: turnverein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real European competition, and furthermore predict that the U.S. will never turn out a topflight team. Why can't the U.S. produce champion gymnasts? One man who thinks he knows is German-born Coach Bernard Unser of the famed Bronx branch of the American Turners (until 1948, the Turnverein'). Says Unser: "In this country gymnastics is not considered a sport as it is in Europe. The average person here says, 'What do I care about people on monkey bars...