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...band was not through. Before the two-mile race, it struck up the Belgian national anthem-for balding, ruddy-faced Gaston Reiff, Olympic 5,000-meter record holder. It was a jockeying race from the start: first, Philadelphia's Curt Stone took the lead, then FBI man Fred Wilt, then Sweden's Erik Ahlden, then Reiff, then Stone, then Reiff. The Belgian, running with a choppy, high-knee action and occasionally dropping his arms to rest, fought off three challengers in the last quarter mile, finished in a blazing 8:56.1. It was the fastest indoor double mile...
WILLIAM G. WILT...
...Give what thou wilt, and how much thou wilt, and when thou wilt...
...where thou wilt, and deal with me in all things just as thou wilt...
...urged to consider, for informal wear, the advantages of the heavily starched, detached collar*: it does not wilt under studio lights. Bright, patterned ties, like print frocks, are out-and for the same reason...