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Jonathan D. Reiff '60 presented the Council with a novel plan for a student-run used book mart, designed to save students the reported $150,000 which they annually contribute to local merchants in the form of used book markups...
Students would "bid for books against each other" at stalls in Memorial Hall designated for specific courses, according to Reiff. Supply and demand alone would determine prices. The plan would "remove the need for organization of any kind," he said. Students wishing to sell books could contact buyers directly...
...well in collegiate circles, setting a record for the mile, in 4:06.3, a fortnight ago. But there was no real competition for him. no one to test his utmost. In the Compton (Calif.) Invitation Meet last week, Santee got the competition he needed: Belgium's Gaston Reiff, holder of world records at two miles, 2,000 and 3,000 meters, and Finland's Denis Johansson, his country's national titleholder, who has outrun some of Paavo Nurmi's records...
...starter's gun, Belgium's Reiff set a fast pace, running the first quarter in 62.7 sec. Finland's Johansson took over the lead for the next quarter, was timed at the half in 2:05.2. Then, with a burst of long strides, Wes Santee took over. He tore past the three-quarter mark in 3 :03.5, then reeled off the last quarter in a dazzling 0:58.9 to breast the tape in front at 4:02.4. His time was precisely one second off the world record set by Sweden's Gunder Hagg...
Indoor Blaze. The 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...