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...Wes Santee is a stringy 20-year-old who runs for the University of Kansas track team. A year ago his coach decided that Santee's best chance in the Olympics was at a distance: 5,000 meters, where the competition for places on the team was not so tough. Wes made the grade in the U.S. trials but was a flop in Finland, where his slow time failed even to qualify him for the final. Dogged Wes came home and decided to be a miler...
...starter's gun, Belgium's Reiff set a fast pace, running the first quarter in 62.7 sec. Finland's Johansson took over the lead for the next quarter, was timed at the half in 2:05.2. Then, with a burst of long strides, Wes Santee took over. He tore past the three-quarter mark in 3 :03.5, then reeled off the last quarter in a dazzling 0:58.9 to breast the tape in front at 4:02.4. His time was precisely one second off the world record set by Sweden's Gunder Hagg...
...Ames, Iowa, Kansas Olympian Wes Santee, winging around the track in the Big Seven championships, set a new collegiate mile record of 4:06.3, clipping four-tenths of a second off the old mark set by another famed Kansan, Glenn Cunningham...
...from the style. And what is there beside his stuff? The Wentworth piece, sure, probably the best he's done so far. Good sketch of an ill-clothed, ill-fed French family which waits months for a CARE package. When it comes, it's all American magazines. And Wes Johnson's idea about a holdup at the Cambridge Trust curb teller makes a good cartoon. But what else? Robinson keeps drawing those goddam spiderweb cartoons utterly devoid of humor. And Edward's trifle about Kurds and gypsies succeeds only in being esoteric. That's it--except for the Boss...
Three hours after the committee reported in Topeka, Wes Roberts slipped into a side door of the White House with a letter in his pocket. He handed Dwight Eisenhower his resignation as the $32,500-a-year national chairman, and then issued a bitter statement: "I have resigned because a carefully contrived and thinly veiled plot growing out of a fierce factional fight in Kansas state politics has destroyed my usefulness as national chairman." President Eisenhower issued a quiet statement of his own: "I believe his decision a wise...