People: Jun. 15, 1962

Making his own crowd at the Seattle World's Fair, Kansas Rancher Glenn Cun ningham, 52, world's greatest miler in the 1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said, and nominated one candidate for the feat: 14-year-old...

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