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...three-mile title to his trophies. Running against Germany's Herbert Schade, close-up finisher behind Czech Emil Zatopek in the Olympic 5,000-meter run, Ashenfelter won by 95 yds. in 13:47.5, just 1.8 seconds behind Greg Rice's 1942 record. Other A.A.U. champions: Mal Whitfield at 600 yds. in 1:10.4; Fred Dwyer at one mile, 4:12.4; Olympic Champion Harrison ("Bones") Dillard, his seventh straight 60-yd. hurdles title...
...Stanislavsky Method. It is no accident that Whitfield is a champion. A keen student of track, the lean (6 ft. 1 in., 165 lbs.) California Negro works as hard at his titleholder's role as an actor who follows the famed Stanislavsky method of living the part. Working in front of a big mirror, he studies his form; after a stiff workout, he again goes to the mirror to see if his face reflects strain. He studies the opposition almost as closely. After a trial heat, when he knows he has to race the same runners again, Whitfield will...
This coolly calculated approach to the opposition is duplicated in Whitfield's detachment when he looks at himself. "I learn all the time," he says. Just last summer, touring Europe after his Olympic victory, he picked up a pointer from a German trainer. The trick, which reverses standard U.S. coaching theory: go into a turn at top speed, let momentum carry you around. "It's much less tiring," says Whitfield, "and I haven't run a poor race since I learned...
...equaled the world indoor record of 1:10.2 for 600 yards (TIME, Feb. 9), but his deceptively effortless stride made it appear that he could have done even better. An official criticized him for not breaking the record, accused him of not trying. Ordinarily good-natured and tractable, Whitfield later bristled: "What did he want, blood...
...Whitfield has done most of his running on special passes from the Air Force, from which he has just been discharged after nearly ten years' service, including 27 missions as a tail gunner in Korea. This season he is wearing the jersey of the Grand Street Boys' Club, an athletic and social club on Manhattan's West Side. Unable to key himself up for competition unless the stakes are of near-Olympic level, he has set himself an improbable and almost impossible goal: ten world records, indoors & out, between 440 and 1,000 yards. At 28, planning...