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    LOS ANGELES --BREAKS INDOOR MILE RECORD -- Jim Beatty, of the Los Angeles Track Club, breaks the tape in the mile run with a time of 3:58.9 to shatter the indoor mile record at the Times Indoor Track Meet at Los Angeles Sports Arena 2/10/1962. Beatty is the first athlete to run the mile in under four minutes on an indoors track. AP Photo
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    Jim Beatty, left, of the Los Angeles Track Club, has a slight lead at the half-mile mark over Witold Baran, of Poland, and Tom O'Hara, right, of Chicago's Loyola University in the Baxter Mile at Madison Square Garden in New York on Feb. 16, 1963. Beatty won the indoor mile race with a record time of 3 minutes, 58.6 seconds. O'Hara finished a close second with a time of 3:59.2, and Baran was third, with a time of 4:03.5. (AP Photo)
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    Jim Beatty, of the Los Angeles Track Club, is clocked by timers in 3:59.7 as he crosses the finish line in Bankers Mile at the Chicago Daily News Relays in Chicago on March 9, 1962. It was the second time this season he had bettered the 4-minute mark in the indoor mile. (AP Photo/Harry L. Hall)
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    STANDORD, CA. -- VICTORY KISS -- Jim Beatty is given a kiss and embrace of congratulations by Russia's Ivan Beletskiy, right. after Beatty beat Beletskiy and set a new meet record of 3:39.9 in the 1500 meter run 7/22/1962. AP PHOTO
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    Jim Beatty is greeted by his mother at the Charlotte airport 2/26/1962 as he returns home from setting a world mile indoor track record in Los Angeles 2/10/1962. Observer File Photo/James Denning
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    Jim Beatty jogs with the Myers Park High School track team 2/26/1962 on his return from Los Angeles where he set a world indoor track record of 3:58.9 on 2/10/1962. Observer File Photo/George Honeycutt
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    Fifty years ago, Charlotte's Jim Beatty ran the first indoor sub-4 minute mile in Los Angeles (actual date was Feb.10, 1962). JEFF WILLHELM - jwillhelm@charlotteobserver.com
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