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...Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time handing out medals to successful musclemen, encouragement to unknowns (the young Baseballers Jackie Robinson and Ralph Kiner, Trackman Mel Patton), helped oversubscribe Southern California's Olympic contributions...
Fullback Barous, a trackman in the spring, will handle most of the Redmen's rushing, along with senior Hal Bowers, who won his letters at halfback last season. Dick Wright and co-Captain Don Johnson will fill in at the halfback positions to give the team an experienced backfield...
...blunt Henry Wriston said, "an admirable appointment." A tough-minded scholar with often unattainably high standards, Barney Keeney has long seemed marked for success. At the University of North Carolina he was a star trackman and the top student in his class. After taking his Ph.D. at Harvard, he joined the faculty, was one of the most promising young men in the history department. Then, the day after Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Army, and because of his fluency in French and German, was eventually assigned to combat intelligence. To those who had known him before, it came...
...year-old refugee from czarist military conscription. He Americanized the family name, learned the tailoring trade, and eventually settled in Rumford. In spite of his sedentary occupation, father Muskie was a confirmed outdoorsman at heart, and Ed became an enthusiastic fisherman, a good skier and a competent trackman in school...
Official Crackdown. When 25-year-old Trackman Bannister was hustled aboard a plane at London airport under the alias "Richard Bentley," his flight to the U.S. was supposed to be a secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story...