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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Larceny. In Pekin, Ill., somebody filched a 300-lb. tombstone from the Abel Vault & Monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Richards looked up at the crossbar. There it sat: the most beautiful stationary object he had ever seen in his life. After two years of missing by finger-flicks (TIME, Jan. 29), Parson Richards had become the second* man in history to vault 15 feet or more. He got up and did an unrestrained war dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Madison Square Garden | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...first: Cornelius Warmerdam, who did it 43 times. His best vault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In Madison Square Garden | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...Mello will vault for Harvard; Dick Barwise and freshman Ty Smith will high jump; and Charley Durakis, Bob Twitchell, and Smith will enter the high hurdles event. Geick, Pete Curran, and either Durakis or Twitchell will also run the dash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball, Track Teams See Action Saturday Evening | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...winter track season, boggles by the officials blurred the results to the point of farcical anticlimax. The two big questions: 1) Did Don Gehrmann or Fred Wilt win the Wanamaker Mile? 2) Did, or did not, the Rev. Robert Richards become the second man in history to pole-vault 15 feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No Doubt Whatever | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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