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...Suspicious." The executive committee of the Amateur Athletic Union sitting in conclave in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, dwelt on the word. They were talking about Stanislaw Petkiewicz, Polish runner, beater of Paavo Nurmi, who had asked for permission to run in U. S. meets (TIME, Dec. 30). Had some promoter asked Petkiewicz to come over? Was he really interested simply in finding how law -his chosen subject-is taught in U. S. schools? Who were his friends? These questions, to the executive committee presided over by a serious man named Avery Brundage, seemed far more important than whether Petkiewicz could...
...automobile in his machine-shop in Turku, shrugged his shoulders and looked hard at his work when reporters asked him whether it were true that he had been feeling sick lately. Meantime, last week, down a gangplank in Manhattan strode another athlete who had received no invitation-Stanislaw Petkiewicz of Poland...
Prosperous and slender, with light hair, big eyes, the hollow cheeks common to runners and the round skull common to Poles, Petkiewicz had journeyed over at his own expense. Runners who are being paid for by some club may only compete for 21 days, but Petkiewicz may stay as long as he likes-long enough to get used to board tracks, on which he has never contested. He studies law in the University of Warsaw. He wears a conventional grey coat, carries a sable to put on when the wind is chilly. He holds every Polish middle-distance record from...
...Proud Petkiewicz is as yet inexperienced. Although insisting that he came merely to see how U. S. universities taught law, he brought his track clothes with him and immediately presented himself for recognition...
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