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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Broad-shouldered, bird-legged Ray Norton, 21, of California's San Jose State, might have had a world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what...
Running after Roscoe. Fortnight ago at the Modesto. Calif, relays, Morrow, Norton and Woodhouse trailed as chunky (5 ft. 9 in., 154 Ibs.) University of Oregon sophomore Roscoe Cook came from nowhere to pass them all and equal the world record. Cook, 20, had stage fright before the race. "I...
Leonard continued to stall and the talk got uglier. Blinky visited Leonard in Los Angeles, accompanied by a couple of tough-looking hoodlums with police records who lingered ominously in the background. Leonard got threatening phone calls ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack. You...
In some regions, notably South America and Africa, the herb hunters were all over. Led by Dr. John Wurdack, the New York Botanical Garden's Expedition No. 21 was at the headwaters of the Orinoco. Seeking new or rare plants, its professional botanists were especially alert for any with...
The costly and intensive search for what the oldtime druggist called botanicals is based on solid historical fact. Checking an old wives' brew used in Shropshire to bolster failing hearts, William Withering found in 1775 that the active ingredient came from the common foxglove, thus stumbled upon digitalis-still...