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...friends gave him the "Tired Tennis Shoe Award"?a scruffy old sneaker which he proudly displays in a glass case in his office. Essentially he is a loner, and his favorite sports are those that pit a single man against nature, or against the limits of his own endurance???hiking, mountain climbing, skiing, sailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Loner from Olympia | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...really passed the squirrel stage. For his first marathon Ray scorned to train, set off at a fast clip wearing the shoes he used for middle-distance running. Doctors cut off these shoes when the race was over. In them they found evidence of almost super-human endurance???two swollen purple lumps which were Ray's feet, chafed to the bone and caked with blood from broken blisters. Clarence De Mar, spindle-shanked Boston printer, won the race. Ray, informed that he could never run again, slicked his hair, said he would run within a month and "positively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Squirrel Stage | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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