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When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he...
When he was a child living in Manhattan while his father worked for the United Nations, the boy who was to become Britain's Fifth Baron Haden-Guest of Saling passed his happiest hours staring out his apartment window at the passing parade. He would imitate the funny walks he...
"Sailing is different from other sports because it's so intensely psychological. So much goes on in saling that it is almost impossible to control, like wind changes."
After the finals of the 110-metre high hurdles, the track looked as though someone had driven an automobile through the jumps. Willi Welscher of Germany had knocked down four, enough to disqualify him. John Alton Keller of Ohio State had knocked down two and finished fourth, Donald Finlay of...
Also running with the wind was Iowa's gold-toothed George Saling. After Keller pulled a tendon in the 220-yd. low hurdles, Saling breezed on to tie the world record.
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