Word: templeton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...center of attention for most of the week was a small, bronzed man whose athletic feats were relatively modest. He was Dink Templeton, track coach at Stanford from 1921 to 1939, whom varsity coach Bill McCurdy, one of his former pupils, calls "the greatest track coach going...
...Templeton's disciples flocked to meet him once again. Besides McCurdy, 1937 Pacific Coast 880 champ, there was Lonnie Spurrier, first-year Business School student who set a world's record in the 880 while running for Templeton's San Francisco Athletic Club in 1955. Guinn Smith, assistant Dean of the Business School, came over to see the coach who guided him to the 1948 Olympic pole vault championship...
Tiring of conversation with reporters his first day out, Templeton approached Steven Cohen, a sophomore shot putter, who was having his troubles. He worked with Cohen's body position for a moment and said, "Go thead and throw one." Cohen threw, and the shot landed two feet past the best previous mark. "That's the best I've felt in two weeks," Cohen remarked, and Templeton beamed with satisfaction...
...pardon the expression) she wears very sheer dark stockings with her black dinner dresses. We found some low-calorie chocolates for her. and she couldn't have been more appreciative had we given her emeralds." Mamie became "homesick" for Ike one night when visiting Pianist Alec Templeton played When You and I Were Young, Maggie. Sighed Mamie: "That's his favorite song...
Slipping Business. In Glasgow, burglars broke into a grocery of the R. & J. Templeton chain, raided it for 8 Ibs. of butter, greased the floor with it, slid the safe to the door, where their getaway truck was waiting...