Word: burghley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME erred in stating that the Queen Mary's promenade deck is 570 yd. around. Cunard White Star figures that approximately four laps around it make a mile. Length of Burghley's 58-sec. run was therefore approximately a quarter-mile, for which the world's indoor record is 49.6 sec. Not only was Lord Burghley handicapped by the sharp turns, but also by full evening dress: tails, stiff shirt, pumps...
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...extreme faith in the Cunard White Star Line, I would have been somewhat bewildered by the statement (TIME, June 8) of A. P. Herbert, Punch's M. P., that there is a plate on the promenade deck of the Queen Mary recording that Lord Burghley ran a circuit of the deck-570 yd.-in 58 seconds, "untrained and unchanged...
...that's only part of the story. Lord Burghley ran in evening clothes. TIME did a sloppy bit of reporting here-neglected to mention whether 1) Tuxedo or formal, 2) stiff or soft bosom shirt, 3) high shoes or dancing pumps...
...Neither Lord Burghley nor any other human being has ever run 570 yards in anywhere near 58 seconds...