Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...style as simple, unspectacular and effective as his way of going up a hill, he tells how he decided it was more comfortable to run on his heels than on his toes; why he came in 12th in his first Olympic race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge...
Most famed marathoner in the U. S., Clarence DeMar has not yet shown himself the most enduring. That distinction belongs to Peter Foley, 83, who was so much pleased by finishing 12th in the Boston Marathon of 1906 that he has run in it almost annually ever since, finished 48th four years ago. Though marathoners can continue running as long as they can breathe, the ablest marathoners are usually young men. At the finish line on Exeter Street last week, DeMar was 14th. Peter Foley was nowhere to be seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest...
...Parker wrote Hora Novissima, his masterpiece, taking the text from Bernard de Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...
...double-eagle 2 on the Augusta National's 485-yd. 15th hole. What Nelson did last week was not quite so spectacular but it was equally effective. He got a birdie 3 at the tenth hole, a par 4 at the nth, a birdie 2 at the 12th, an eagle 3 at the 13th. On the 12th, where his ball had failed by inches to carry a water hazard, Guldahl had taken 5. On the 13th, where his iron shot had gone into the water, he had had a 6. Consequently, on the 14th tee, instead of being four...
ELEANOR or AQUITAINE-Melrich V. Rosenberg-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Routine but interesting first English biography of the 12th Century "Queen of the Troubadours and of the Courts of Love" whose political intrigues relieved her not only of royal husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, but also of her favorite son, Richard the Lion-Heart...