1948: Sports

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The first Olympic Games since 1936 would in themselves have made 1948 a notable year in sports history, but of equal significance and, perhaps, interest were performances and performers in sports outside the classic sanctity of Olympic walls. While throngs of Englishmen cheerfully watched American... ...