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Last week's running of the Boston Marathon-26 mi. over New England hills from Tebeau's Farm at Hopkinton, Mass., to the clubhouse of the Boston Athletic Association-was the 36th. It was the 14th for 44-year-old Clarence De Mar, a school-teacher of Keene...
...Banker Morgan resides on Madison Avenue in the block bounded by Park Avenue, 36th & 37th Streets. In addition to the Morgan home, library and museum the block is occupied by: Brother-in-Law Herbert Livingston Satterlee, Socialites Lyman J. Delano and Edwin Wright Sheldon, Drs. Edwin A. Spies and Israel Fleiss, the new Union League Club...
John Nance Garner had two anniversaries last week-his 62nd birthday and his 36th wedding. He observed both by going to his office before 8 a. m., working until supper time. Since his birth into a poor family on a lonely farm in the Red River County of North Texas, "Jack" Garner has come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where...
Ties in the Open are decided by a 36-hole playoff. When Burke and Von Elm came to the 36th hole the next day, Burke needed a four for a 149; Von Elm, a stroke behind, needed a three. Confident in the assumption that miracles?and a birdie on a tricky 325-yard last hole in the strain of an Open can be described as a miracle?never happen twice. Burke drove well, put his approach 30 feet from the pin, his approach putt three feet from the cup. Von Elm's pitch shot was twelve feet from...
...more than 250 came for the unprecedented second 36-hole play-off the next day. Burke played an erratic round, his first, in the morning, but Von Elm was shaky too. They had 77 and 76. In the afternoon, both played beautifully. When they came to the 36th tee, Burke was two strokes ahead. He hit his ap proach too hard and it scampered across the low platform of the green 15 feet beyond the hole. Von Elm's ball went a foot further. He leaned over to putt and then looked up; the whirling of a camera had disturbed...