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...Wes Fesler, All-America at Ohio State and now head football coach at the University of Minnesota, as a famous exponent of The Little Engine That Could [Oct. 5]. Wes is one coach who honestly believes that character-building is as important as winning football games . . . The Little Engine is his favorite morale builder, and thousands of people have heard him relate the story...
...Gothenburg, Sweden, Kansas Miler Wes Santee ran the fastest 1,500 meters ever run by an American. Time: 3:44.2, just a shade off the world record...
...Turku, Finland, Olympic Champion Mai Whitfield, pressed by Miler Wes Santee, whirled to a world record at 880 yds. in 1:48.6, breaking the old record by six-tenths of a second. Aiming for ten records in a year (TIME, Feb. 16), Whitfield has now set four (others: 500 yds., 500 meters...
...successive world records for shot-putting in the past few weeks with heaves of 59 ft. ¾ in. and 59 ft. 2⅜ in.; California's Sim Iness, 22, who broke the world discus record a fortnight ago with a toss of 190 ft. | in.; Kansas' Wes Santee, 21, who last month ran the fastest mile in U.S. history (4:02.4)* None of these heroes bettered his own best last week, but just as the crowd started to drift away, it got a new hero and a new world record...
...Kansas University Miler Wes Santee, who whipped the field by 25 yds. with a sparkling 4:03.7 race, just 1.3 sec. slower than the American record he set fortnight ago (TIME, June...