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...Page and venerable musher Joe Redington Sr., who mortgaged his home and sold a piece of land to help finance the event's start-up costs. Their efforts helped persuade officials to stage the first full-length Iditarod in March, 1973, in which Dick Wilmarth and his lead dog, Hotfoot, triumphed by covering the inhospitable terrain in 20 days. Since 1983, the Iditarod - the word is said to mean "distant place" in indigenous Alaskan dialects - has steadily grown in popularity, becoming both the most popular sporting event in the state and an international touchstone renowned for both the stamina...
...still bed-ridden when news came through that Japan had surrendered. His sweetheart Marjorie Rushberry, the dark-haired nurse who had looked after him, went into town with girlfriends to celebrate. "But all the soldiers were going mad, grabbing girls and kissing them, so we decided to hotfoot it back to hospital," she says. The Kennas have been married for 58 years, and still live in the red-roofed house that locals in Kenna's home town of Hamilton, in Victoria's western wool district, built for them when he returned in 1946. The pale gums and sheep fields were...
...Jackson incident gave the giant a hotfoot. Before that--despite Powell's reputation as Howard Stern's Inspector Javert--the group found the former chair unresponsive to its concerns. ("I don't want the government as my nanny," Powell said in 2001.) Winter, a lifelong Democrat who heads the PTC's Los Angeles and Alexandria offices (to Hollywood, he's the good cop to Bozell's bad cop), says, "We embarrass the FCC. We prove that they're not doing their job, and they are embarrassed...
Since it was Thursday, the first thing I did was waddle down the hall to the place where Barbara puts out a bowl of chocolates, grab a fistful of Butterfingers and Special Darks, and then hotfoot it back to my desk. Three hundred paces! This was going to be easy. Unfortunately, by the end of the day, I had racked up only 3,000 steps. I resolved the next day to walk to the pizza place at lunch rather than order in, and I managed to boost my total to 5,000 paces. Within three days, I was obsessed with...
Christopher Buckley, the son of William F. Buckley Jr., has had some good breaks during his lifetime, but how lucky can you get? Thank You for Smoking (Random House; 272 pages; $22), the hotfoot Buckley has given the tobacco industry, went on sale at the same time as a nationally televised congressional hearing was making American cigarette makers look like drug dealers...