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...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 of the field, stopped after the first ten miles. Winner, when the favorite, John Kelley, weakened...
...youngest and ablest Episcopal bishops in the U. S. is Rt. Rev. Henry Wise Hobson, 45, of southern Ohio. A handsome, strapping man (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lb.), he was crew manager and Skull & Bones man at Yale (Class of 1914), won a Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism" as a major in the World War, was chosen Bishop Coadjutor of southern Ohio in 1930 after holding an assistant rectorship in Waterbury, Conn., a rectorship in Worcester, Mass. In Cincinnati, his episcopal residence, Bishop Hobson joins in civic movements, collects paintings, holds services in small, old St. Paul...
...ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country's ablest classical actors, to take the leading role and that morning Burgess Meredith (High Tor, Winterset), the most promising juvenile on the U. S. stage, had walked in, asked for and been given a part. With notables waiting in the control room, with the 200 supers and actors standing...
...rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease. In the final, with a socialite crowd of 5.000 seated around the court, Hock Sim Ong's opponent was tall, 24-year-old Walter Kramer of the Detroit Badminton Club, rated by professionals as the ablest U. S. amateur for the last two years. The first game went to Kramer, 15-10. In the second Sim Ong got a lead of 4-1, then apparently forgot all he knew about the game while his opponent ran out 14 points in a row for match & title. Prettiest girl...
...Oldest, ablest, most interesting of these abstractionists is Artist Albert Eugene Gallatin, Eugene to his friends, though art critics know him better as a patron than a producer of art. Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...