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...finished-including 16-year-old Diana Congdon, who covets a place among lady discus throwers in the 1964 Olympics and who walked the 50 miles in 13 hr. 29 min., toting an 8-lb. knapsack filled with a diminishing supply of candy, oranges and fresh clothes. In Burlington, N.C., a 58-year-old postman (who rides a motor scooter on his route) walked the 50 miles in 10 hr. 28 min.. boasted he could cut two hours off that time. Newspapers scrambling for a "bright feature" put their most athletic reporters on the road, though few finished 50 miles...
Died. Warren Robinson Austin, 85, onetime Republican Senator from Vermont and first U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; of pneumonia; in Burlington, Vt. In the Senate, Austin was an outspoken internationalist who championed lend-lease in 1941 with a thunderously applauded oration: "I say that a world enslaved to Hitler is worse than war, and worse than death." Appointed to the U.N. by Harry Truman, he was a rough-and-ready adversary of Soviet propaganda efforts. His most dramatic hour came in 1950 when he answered Moscow's attempt to charge the U.S. with aggression in Korea. Austin held...
...sent a letter to ten top international art magazines telling about the theft and reporting that the Maitlands wanted the painting back. Professor Leopold Reidemeister, general director of West Berlin's municipal museums, learned the sad news by reading Feigen's appeal in London's Burlington Magazine...
...moved into the office left vacant last month by the death of J. Spencer Love, Burlington Industries' candid new President Charles F. Myers, 50, made it plain that the era of one-man rule had ended for the world's largest textile empire (1961 sales: $866 million). Says Myers in a rich Charleston accent: "No one will take the load that Mr. Love took. Management from now on will be a team operation." Lured away from a banking career during a series of tennis games with Love 15 years ago. Myers started off at Burlington as a financial...
Died. Ralph Budd, 82, highballing ex-president of the Great Northern Railroad (1919-32) and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1932-49), an internationally famed rehabilitator of railroads who in 1906 rebuilt the line that served the Panama Canal, was a consultant in the reorganization of the Soviet Union's badly managed rail routes in 1930 and introduced America's first diesel-powered streamliners and bubble-dome cars; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...