focus on a new career in business. World Records Honors In 2008, Carr was inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. Carr was inducted into the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1962. Carr was selected for the Sports Illustrated 's All-Time Olympic Team in 1954. He was selected as the number one 400-meter runner for 1925-49 by Track & Field News' World Athletes of the Century. The Bill Carr Memorial Room at the Pine Bluff Public Library is named in his honor. A statue of Carr was installed at Franklin Field of the University of Pennsylvania. A statue was dedicated in his honor at Mercersburg Preparatory Academy. In 1932, he received a special trophy from his hometown of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Later life On March 18, 1933, Carr was in a car accident that broke both his ankles and his right pelvis. At the time of the two-car accident, he was standing on the car's running board. He was in the hospital for four week and was not able to compete in track again. He had a slight limp as a result of his injuries. In 1934, Carr started working for the Insurance Company of North America. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving as an officer in naval intelligence the Pacific Theater. While there, he met his wife, Rachel Elizabeth Manasseh, in Shanghai, China. She was a lecturer and writer about Oriental art. They had one son, Alain. After the war, they lived in Japan where he became the Far Eastern general manager of the Insurance Company of North America. Next, he worked for Pan-American World Airways as the general personnel manager. He became the executive director of the International Center for overseas students in Midtown, New York. He then moved to Tokyo, Japan where he was both vice president of Prismo Safety Products, a Pennsylvania highway safety and building equipment company, and the Far East representative of the Potter Brothers, a highway building equipment dealer from New Jersey. In 1966, Carr died from congestive heart failure in Tokyo at the age of 56. He was buried in Graceland Cemetery in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. References f 1909 births 1966 deaths Mercersburg Academy alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni St. Anthony Hall Sportspeople from Pine Bluff, Arkansas American male sprinters Olympic gold medalists for the United States in track and field Athletes (track and