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	Jack Lovelock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Edward "Jack" Lovelock (January 5, 1910 – December 28, 1949) was a New Zealand athlete, and a 1936 Olympic champion.
		Born in the town of Crushington (near Reefton) as the son of English immigrants, Lovelock showed talent for sports while at high school.
		The highlight of Lovelock's career came in 1936, when he won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the Berlin Olympics, setting a new world record in the final (3:47.8).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Lovelock (257 words)

	Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Jack Lovelock was born in Crushington on the West Coast and was educated in South Canterbury (winning a Junior National Scholarship while at primary school in Fairlie, allowing him two years of free secondary education), finishing his high schooling at Timaru Boys High School as a boarder.
		Lovelock claimed the record attempt to be most foolish and one of the worst acts of folly of his whole racing career.
		Lovelock believed he lacked the strength for two such races on consecutive days but others felt his result was due to nerves.
	www.athletics.org.nz /lovelock2.html (1592 words)

	Come on, Jack! The Lovelock Olympic Story - Info
		The races between Lovelock and his rivals created enormous international interest and were widely reported in the sports press, radio and on film.
		Most have come from Lovelock's own comprehensive collection, but others have come from his family in America, and from other sources around the world.
		In addition to film of Lovelock's races, visitors will also be able hear contemporary radio broadcasts and interviews with people who knew him.
	www.coolrunning.co.nz /lovelock/info.html (573 words)

	Jack Lovelock -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		John Edward "Jack" Lovelock (January 5,1910 – December 28, 1949) was a (An independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery) New Zealand athlete, and a 1936 (Click link for more info and facts about Olympic) Olympic champion.
		The highlight of Lovelock's career came in 1936, when he won the gold medal in the 1500 m at the (Click link for more info and facts about Berlin Olympics) Berlin Olympics, setting a new world record in the final (3:47.8).
		He was tragically killed when he fell under a subway train in (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jack_lovelock.htm (325 words)

	Gaia: James Lovelock and primordial reality
		Albeit his theory was actually anachronistic, and only vanguard to the patriarchal minds running rampant through academia ever since the institution’s inception; Lovelock was merely unearthing, so to speak, what the Druids and Pagans had long known as an absolute truth- that the earth is alive.
		My physical brother, for example, carries a very similar spirit, soul, and disposition to my own, and though our paths are as idiosyncratic as all others, there are also immense and deep similarities between us, for we are of the same fabric, and therefore are made from the same loom.
		Jack Haas is a wilderness explorer, world traveler, and independent researcher and writer.
	www.iconoclastpress.com /Lovelock.html (436 words)

	'A Civilising Mission' \| New Zealanders & the Rhodes Scholarship 1904- 2004
		Jack Lovelock is known to New Zealanders as the athlete who won New Zealand’s first Olympic gold medal for athletics in 1936.
		According to Porritt it was he who advised Lovelock to run the 1500 metres, instead of the 5000 metres at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
		Jack Lovelock after his victory over rivals Glen Cunningham and Bill Bonthron in the ‘mile of the century’, at the Princeton Invitational meeting, New York, 15 June 1935.
	www.library.otago.ac.nz /exhibitions/rhodes_scholars/jack_lovelock.html (746 words)

	Lovelock, by James McNeish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		With some exceptions the sportsmen is notoriously short-lived and it is not often that an athlete who is remembered for only one race continues to dominate a landscape after the passing of half a century.
		Lovelock's unexpected victory, against the 'greatest field of milers ever assembled', has all the hallmarks of a great discovery.
		In 1949 at the age of 39, Jack Lovelock was killed when he fell beneath a train in new York.
	www.nzbooks.com /nzbooks/product.asp?sku=jamesmcneish1869414004 (288 words)

	Olympic Summer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		One of New Zealand's most memorable medal wins was at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
		Jack Lovelock won the gold in 1500 metre "glamour event".
		Lovelock set a new world record time of 3 minutes 47.8 seconds and described his win as "the most perfectly executed race of my career".
	www.olympic.org.nz /games.aspx?ID=166&GamesID=11 (49 words)

	New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz: Lovelock's lost trophy found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Lovelock's former school, Timaru Boys' High, already has the gold medal Lovelock earned for his 1500m run on prominent display, alongside many other items of memorabilia related to the first New Zealander to win an Olympic track and field gold medal.
		However, almost no one knew Lovelock also received a 3.6kg cup engraved with an imperial eagle and swastika and with a Bohemian lead crystal lid for his world record-setting run.
		Lovelock died in 1949 in the United States.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3311056a11,00.html (465 words)

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		He holds the Olympic record of 3:45.2, which would have beaten Jack Lovelock at Berlin by about 22 yards.
		This high appraisal of the famed Australian professional sprinter was given here yesterday (March 22, 1954) at the meeting of the local track and field writers.
		Jack told me several times after running all over the world, if he had to go out and run his fastest record race, he would rather try to do it on that rolled grass surface than on any track in the world."
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /general/back_track/50_51.html (1750 words)

	OUAC All Time Hall of Fame
		Jack Lovelock arrived at Oxford in 1931 as a Rhodes Scholar from New Zealand.
		In what was widely recognised as the greatest 1500m field ever produced, Lovelock achieved an incredible victory, overcoming his opponents with an extended sprint from home with 300 metres to go, something never done before.
		The BBC commentary to the race was provided by Jack's good friend, Harold Abrahams, winner of the 100 yards in the 1924 Paris Olympics.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~ouac/people/all_hall.shtml (3463 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- 1936 trophy makes way to New Zealand
		A crystal trophy presented by Adolf Hitler to 1,500-meter gold medalist Jack Lovelock at the 1936 Berlin Olympics reached New Zealand on Wednesday after a 69-year delay.
		Lovelock, a New Zealander who died in a New York subway accident in 1949, decided after his run to leave the trophy in the care of a 14-year-old boy working at the Olympic village.
		The trophy will be displayed at Lovelock's old school, Timaru Boys' High School, on New Zealand's South Island which already houses his gold medal and an oak tree grown from a sapling also presented to Lovelock by Hitler.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/20050708-9999-lz1s08galry.html (421 words)

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		The continued relevance of the Southern Cross is indicated by its apperance on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, which is to be unveiled in Wellington in November.
		The Silver Fern is etched in the memory of great victories by the All Blacks, our runners Jack Lovelock, Peter Snell and John Walker, the rowing eight from Munich.
		This Empire ceased to exist in 1950, and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Nations.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=4117205&postID=109557575251700781 (2774 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Speedsters : Bruce McLaren : www.nzedge.com
		The 1957 event is remembered as the race where British driver Ken Wharton crashed and later died; and where McLaren first came to the attention of Australian legend Jack Brabham.
		Jack Brabham, the seasoned campaigner, finished the year as number 1 driver in the world.
		Rather than seek out another team, he decided to follow Jack Brabham’s lead (Brabham had formed his own team in 1962) and go out on his own.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes/mclaren.html (2989 words)

	What's New in Lovelock Family History
		Correction pointed out by Robin Lovelock: a note associated with the marriage (1 Feb 1868 at East Grafton) of Henry Hillier and Elizabeth Lovelock was moved to that of Edwin Waters and Elizabeth Lovelock (marr.
		Added data from David Lovelock (not the Arizona one) on a branch of the Lyneham Line (descendants of Tom L (1858-1937) and Emily Humphries).
		The tables of trees and fragments on the Overview of Lovelock Family Trees and the Wiltshire Family Trees pages now include the date when each tree was last updated.
	perso.numericable.fr /~lovjames/family-history/lovelock/new.html (3928 words)

	NZ Summer Olympic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Yvette Williams was the first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal, winning the long jump at the Helsinki Games in 1952.
		Peter Mander and Jack Cropp won New Zealand's first yachting gold in the 12 metre Sharpie class.
		Peter Snell arrived at the Rome Olympics in 1960 as a complete unkown but in the 800 metres he won the gold in a record time of 1 minute 46.3 seconds.
	www.olympic.org.nz /Article.aspx?ID=343 (1747 words)

	Notes60-69.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The article describes Jack as "one of the deans of the casino industry" and a "veteran hotel and marketing whiz." He also does volunteer work for the United Way and is planning a two-week motorcycle trip across China.
		Mary Lovelock and her husband Bob Chapman live in Newington, CT. Mary is executive director of South Park Inn, a non-profit agency providing services to the homeless.
		In February she was in Auckland, New Zealand, accepting an award honoring her father Dr. Jack Lovelock as that country's greatest athlete of the '30s.
	cornell-magazine.cornell.edu /Archive/Mar2001/Notes60-69.html (7178 words)

	Come on, Jack! The Lovelock Olympic Story - Other Events
		In front of the Fuhrer and 120,000 frenzied spectators, Jack Lovelock ran a race that carried him beyond perfection to despair.' A showing of the short film Lovelock.
		This talk will bring a fellow-runner's insight to Lovelock the runner and a scholar's to Lovelock the legend.
		It will also include comment on Lovelock's death in the New York subway, based on recent visits to the scene and his Brooklyn home.
	www.coolrunning.co.nz /lovelock/other.html (363 words)

	The outsiders by Denis Welch \| New Zealand Listener
		His subjects have included Mackenzie the sheep-stealer, Jack Lovelock, the Springbok tour, the David Bain case – and now he trains his judicious eye on a remarkable group of New Zealanders who are possibly the last and only intellectual heroes this country will ever allow itself to have.
		In the grate burn the manuka leaves that he asked his father to send, and as the pungent smoke rises, writes McNeish, "Mulgan, Bennett and Milner stand side by side, inhaling the scent in brooding silence".
		Mackenzie the sheep-stealer, Jack Lovelock, the David Bain case, the Sicilian Mafia, Israel, the Springbok tour, A R D Fairburn … all subjects of books by McNeish, and all inherently interesting all right.
	www.listener.co.nz /printable,725.sm (2284 words)

	SI.com - Owens, Lewis stand supreme in men's athletics - Sunday August 1, 2004 9:18PM
		In 1936 Jack Lovelock became the first of three New Zealanders to win the title by defeating the American world record holder for the mile Glenn Cunningham and defending champion Luigi Beccali.
		Lovelock started his final sprint 300 metres from the tape to take a second off the world record.
		The only subsquent man to break the world record in an Olympic final was the great Australian Herb Elliott, who won in Rome in 1960.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/olympics/2004/08/01/bc.olympics.athletics.history.men (736 words)

	Victorious Athletes 1936 Olympics
		JACK LOVELOCK'S -- floating power combined with a secret sprint of 200 yards to carry him to victory in the 1500 meters when his chief rivals.
		ARCHIE WILLIAMS paying tribute to HAROLD SMALLWOOD, Troy's quarter-miler, who underwent an operation for appendicitis on the day he was expected to challenge Williams for honors in the 400-meter final.
		GLENN MORRIS, BOB CLARK and JACK PARKER -- giving America a clean sweep in the decathlon for the first time in history, as Morris established an almost unbelievable world's record of 7900 points.
	frankwykoff.com /victorious-athletes-1936-olympics.htm (488 words)

	Search Results for lovelock - Encyclopædia Britannica
		The close interrelation between life and its environment, and its philosophical significance, was noted by the British chemist James E. Lovelock and the American biologist Lynn Margulis.
		Excerpt from this work by the 20th-century scientist and philosopher James Lovelock.
		Article in support of James Lovelock’s hypothesis that the Earth is a giant self-regulating organism.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=lovelock&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (418 words)

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		Leading the Beavers onto the Ind- ians' new rink will be Hal Wells '55, a defenseman and last year's high scorer with 33 points, and the co- captains of this year's squad, Jack Kiley '54 and Joe Bova '54.
		The starting defensemen will be Wells and Kiley, while either Bova or Sandy Aitken '55 will open against the Big Green at the goalie position.
		Linemen at the start of the game will most probably be Jim Bartch and Dick DiBona, both members of the class of '55, and Jack Duffin '54.
	www-tech.mit.edu /archives/VOL_073/TECH_V073_S0220_P003.txt (998 words)

	The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : www.nzedge.com
		Here are just over 100 people who in their own ways have been world-changing.
		As the first New Zealand athlete to win an Olympic gold, Jack Lovelock was edge spirit manifest, an enigmatic achiever whose running style was said to be 'artistic' in grace.
		His spectacular 1500m win at the 1936 Berlin Olympics began a rich history of achievement in New Zealand middle and long distance athletics, front-running for such later greats as Peter Snell, Murray Halberg and John Walker.
	www.nzedge.com /heroes (1804 words)

	Small-town New Zealand: Dream or nightmare?
		An all-male cast of nine do a good job of recreating the claustrophobic world of the boarding school, well-known to the playwright, where Howard is punched by a sadistic senior prefect on his first day for not marching properly.
		But when his realises that Lovelock was not a homosexual as he had believed, Howard becomes disillusioned and runs away from school, and identifies instead with a famous woman flying ace.
		This stands him in good stead when he returns to school where, instead of trying to be a sporting hero, he puts on a play about Lovelock, which becomes a great success among the other boys.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1997/268/268p26.htm (563 words)

	Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		"They've been waiting for the next great hope after Jack Lovelock, Peter Snell and Walker.
		The silver fern is the sporting symbol worn on the jerseys of the All Black rugby team, the caps of New Zealand's cricketers and the vests of the country's athletes.
		Lovelock was New Zealand's first athletics Olympic champion when he won the 1,500 in Berlin in 1936 in a world record time of 3:47.8.
	www.longislandpress.com /reuters/12_ds_147517.php (598 words)

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