Word: stretching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something Blue. Ever since he ran the mile for Milwaukee's Pulaski High, Don Gehrmann had preferred to hang back with the pack, then knock off the leader with a terrific sprint in the stretch. But this year Guy Sundt, Wisconsin's track coach, had taught him to run a different kind of race. With supreme confidence, Gehrmann was planning to ignore Slykhuis and Bengtsson. He would run against the clock, not the competition: a fast 58-second first quarter, a 2-minute half, a 3:04 three quarters, and a record-breaking 4:05 finish. The race...
...three-quarters mark, with Willy still out in front, was 3:08, four seconds more than he had planned. Said Gehrmann later: "I knew then that I couldn't beat 4:05.3. I figured I might as well take it easy, and beat him in the stretch...
...Dead after all. Norman Mailer's big, raw war novel (TIME, May 10) had held the lead all summer and much of the fall, sold 125,000 copies. But by New Year's Day, Mailer had lost the race. The man who passed him in the stretch was an old hand at turning out bestsellers. Lloyd C. Douglas' The, Big Fisherman (TIME, Nov. 22)-a novel about Saint Peter-had hit the stands in mid-November, sold a whopping 350,000 copies in a scant six weeks...
Going into the last round, four men were tied for the lead-Lloyd ("Mustache") Mangrum, Jimmy ("Smiles") Demaret, Eric Monti and Leland Gibson. The first to crack in the stretch was Monti, then Demaret. The winner (wearing pajamas under his golf slacks to keep warm): Mangrum, with an even-par 284. Tied for tenth, with 292, was Ben Hogan, 1948's golfer-of-the-year...
...Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens to them except that they pair off and get married. One lad goes to jail for a short stretch, while the other becomes an alderman. It seems likely that the jailbird gets the best of the deal...