The 70th anniversary of Roger Bannister's record plunged me back into the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki.
I went out with Roger from June 1949 until September 1952. l was at Vassar College, New York, and met Roger when he captained the Oxbridge athletics team trip to Harvard and Yale. We became best friends and travelled around Europe.
In 1950, we travelled to Rome together () and went to a party at the British
