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...Damon Runyon called "a great document of a tall, loose-jointed fellow" is the son of a Bronx schoolteacher, grew up wearing glasses as thick as soda biscuits because of conical corneas...
...Puffing mightily, Los Angeles' Parry O'Brien, 27, put the 16-lb. shot 63 ft. 1 in. to break his own indoor world record by a whopping 11¼ in., share meet honors with Miler Burleson (see above). In Manhattan, The Bronx's heavily girdered (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.) Gary Gubner, 17 (TIME, Jan. 25), finally found a gym big enough for his liking, snapped the national high school indoor record for the 12-lb. shot by 8 in. with a heave...
...Youth Board studied the entering classes of two Bronx elementary schools with the factors recommended by the Glueck chart and found that the careers of the students agreed exactly with the chart's predictions...
...they moved Gary into a still bigger gym. By this time, there was fretful muttering that first place might have to go to Mike Berkowitz, 17, whose toss of only 53 ft. 10¼ in. had hit nothing but the floor. But the weary Bronx boy-whale finally got off a freeflight toss that went 60 ft. 7½ in. to win his just reward. This spring he will have all outdoors for room in his assault on the national scholastic record of 69 ft. 3 in., held by Southern California's Dallas Long...
...year-old on the playground of P.S. 91 back in The Bronx, Schayes was so embarrassed by his 6-ft. height that he adopted the driving, set-shooting style of his hip-high teammates. Even after New York University and twelve years with the Nats, Schayes is still a big man playing a small man's game. If left alone, he will toss an old-fashioned two-handed set that soars so high it is dubbed "the rainmaker"; if crowded, he will knock anyone into the seats who gets in his way as he drives for the layup...