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...Moines, Kansas Miler Wes Santee anchored four winning relay teams in two days of competition at the Drake Relays, helped set U.S. records in the sprint medley and distance medley. Unofficial star of the relays: ex-Southern California Shotputter Parry O'Brien, who tossed the 16-lb. weight 59 ft.9¾ in., a full 6½ in. farther than his own world record. The heave goes into the record books only as a "noteworthy performance," since the Drake Relays lacked the required three competitors in the event...
...famed My Own Brucie (1940-41) to win the Westminster Kennel Club Show, top bench show in the U.S. ¶ New Zealand produced an added starter to the growing list of potential four-minute milers (Luxembourg's Josef Barthel, Australia's John Landy, the U.S.'s Wes Santee, England's Roger Bannister, Germany's Werner Lueg) when Murray Hallberg, a 20-year-old student, ran the distance in 4:04.4 in Auckland...
Freely Speaking. In Mercedes, Texas, showing the film Quo Vadis, the operator of the Wes-Mer Drive-In theater decided that a translation was necessary, on the marquee put "Doónde Vas" for his Mexican customers, "Where You All Goin' " for the Texans...
...will be held at the Stadium this spring; the added event 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...
...Orleans, the University of Kansas' skinny (6 ft. 1 in., 150 Ibs.) Runner Wes Santee dashed the final quarter-mile lap in an astonishing 55 seconds and ran the third fastest mile ever recorded by an American...