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Patriots Day in Boston can be reduced to a single concept--the Marathon. For 24 hours yesterday. Beantown stretched 26 miles. 385 yards. No more, No less. And for the 6500-plus official entrants, and the countless unofficial runners. Lexington was the farthest halite from their minds. Surviving Heartbreak Hill and crossing the finish fine at the Pro was the only challenge...
...MCGUIRE '85 (3:19) "I didn't think Heartbreak Hill was so hard I don't know why everyone's so impressed...
...Harrison. He starred in the 1941 film version of Major Barbara, then played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, the musical adaptation of Pygmalion. Now Harrison is again setting the Shavian standard, this time with Diana Rigg, 44, and a thoroughly splendid cast in a production of Heartbreak House, which opened triumphantly at the Haymarket Theater in London's West End last week. For his role as the 88-year-old Captain Shotover, Harrison, only 75, managed to age himself by growing his own set of Shotover whiskers. Of course in the play, the ripe old captain still gets...
...winning of the 1946 Academy Award for Best Actress: "After Olivia delivered her acceptance speech and entered the wings, I, standing close by, went over to congratulate her ... She took one look at me, ignored my outstretched hand, clutched her Oscar to her bosom, and wheeled away ..." Heartbreak is hardly peculiar to actors, but they are surely experts in extracting drama from it. They often see things the way a scriptwriter might. Concludes Ricardo Montalban's memoir, Reflections-A Life in Two Worlds: "If we are free and open and giving, our lives will be full and fruitful... Those...
...next Monday looms like Heartbreak Hill. It figures to be the final Patriots Day for the Boston Marathon, and the last stand of undiluted amateurism. For reasons no less prosaic than television, the Boston Athletic Association intends to shift its noble race next year to Sunday, perhaps adjust the starting and finish lines slightly for commercial purposes, and, if all that isn't jarring enough, begin paying the winners. Will Cloney, 70, president of the B. A. A. and master of the marathon, contends that there is at least "a semantic difference between being paid and running for prizes...