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...Pushed along by a couple of the fastest quarter-milers in the U.S. (University of Texas' Eddie Southern and Oklahoma A. & M.'s J. W. Mashburn), Air Force 2nd Lieut. Jim Lea, sometime of U.S.C., forgot all about his sore leg and stepped off a world-record 440-yd. dash (0:45.8) at Modesto, Calif...
...Setting world records is getting to be old hat with trim young (19) Sprinter Sime. This winter he set a new mark for the indoor 100-yd. dash (0:09.5); fortnight ago he shaved the 220-yd. low-hurdle record to 0:22.2. And if his father, Aircraft Plant Guard Charles Sime, has his way, the rapid young man will be a long time slowing down. After his world-record dash last week, Dave had hardly caught his breath when he was talking on the telephone to his dad in Fair Lawn, N.J. "Next time do it faster," was Charles...
packed his fishing tackle and got set to fly to Peru, where he will try to catch a star for the movie version of his novelette, The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's quarry: a Pacific black marlin weighing at least 1,500 Ibs. (world-record catch and heftiest fish ever taken by rod and reel...
...World-Record Program. "Marvelous Mal" never runs a poor race, win or lose. Fortnight ago in Boston, he 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...
...improbable and almost impossible goal: ten world records, indoors & out, between 440 and 1,000 yards. At 28, planning to buckle down to work in the hotel business in Los Angeles, Mal Whitfield knows that time is catching up with him. But, in the month since he announced his world-record program, his score is one down, one tied, and eight...