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...Bougainville (TIME, Jan. 10). True. But Tunney was not taken up that difficult mountain trail to see how Marines were "taking it." . . . The Marines had been relieved by soldiers. You report also that on the way back the "45-year-old, 210-pound Tunney set the pace with a dogtrot, kept his followers puffing...
...wanted to see how the Marines were "taking it," took it pretty well himself when he was rapidly led over one hour and 20 minutes of jungle trail to an advance post in Bougainville. On the way back, 45-year-old, 210-lb. Tunney set the pace with a dogtrot, kept his followers puffing...
When he started to go to school at Madisonville, Ohio, Clarence DeMar found it more pleasant to dogtrot than to walk. He has been dogtrotting ever since. In 1911, when he was 23, he entered the 26-mi. Boston Marathon in which he had finished second the year before. A doctor listened to his heart, told him to drop out if he got tired, advised him to give up running afterward. Clarence DeMar won the race in record time. No one else has ever won the Boston Marathon more than twice. DeMar won it seven times, most recently...
Values of the experiment: (i) Train crews need not signal one another with lanterns, flags or whistle toots; brakemen need not dogtrot over moving car tops to deliver messages to engineers; (2) Train dispatchers can give orders without stopping trains; (3) The voice supplements automatic train signals...