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...Knights of Columbus Athletic Meet in Madison Square Garden, Defending Champion Mai Whitfield was nosed out by Villanova Alumnus Joe Gaffney in the 600-yd. run, and another ex-titleholder proved a disappointment even while winning. Miler Wes Santee lazed home in 4:10.4, one of the slowest times of the winter season...
...Whitfield, 30, work meant running and making friends for the U.S. From Iceland to the heart of the Congo, the limber-legged Negro demonstrated the smooth style and strenuous training techniques that have won him two Olympic gold medals (at 800 meters in 1948 and 1952) and helped him set ten middle-distance marks. * Everywhere, he managed to give local runners a quick course of expert coaching, lead them through exhausting calisthenics and still had strength enough to run the legs off the fastest trackmen around. Seldom has the U.S. State Department sponsored so popular an ambassador...
Extraordinary Fellow. Along the way, ex-Air Force Sergeant Whitfield had his troubles. In Reykjavik, at the start of his tour, he ran head-on into competition from a Russian road show. Angered because Whitfield was outdrawing them four to one, the Russians did their best to take his mind off his job; they even planted a pretty girl in the room next to his at the hotel. "She started giving me the glad eye," Mai remembers, "but I don't go for that obvious stuff. I wasn't upset...
...pleased surprise, Whitfield had his greatest success in Africa. In Kenya's capital of Nairobi, Mai talked a mixed crowd of Africans, Indians and white businessmen into shucking their shirts, trousers, shoes and socks and working out on the half-mile grass track...
Land of Champs. Ambassador Whitfield stayed at Nairobi's best hotel (the New Stanley), to the wonder of the local "non-Europeans." Only in Northern Rhodesia was there any discrimination against him: in Lusaka jittery officials did not dare put him up at the capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need...