Word: macke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding alongside Brittin on a bicycle, keeping the time and providing encouragement, was Mike Burns. Burns, from Martinsville, Va., placed 213th in last year's Boston Marathon and the stocky runner has a best-ever time of 2:43:10. He, Brittin, Bill Kalal and Ferris Mack will be part of the crowd of 1951 participants, the most ever, in today's 78th Boston Marathon...
...Mack is a freshman from Babylon, N.Y., and he said he tried football in high school and discovered he abhorred the violence. So he started running, and he hasn't stopped...
This afternoon the four from W&L should all finish. Burns should end up just before three o'clock with Kalal, who has run a 2:57:17 marathon, just behind him. Mack and Brittin should reach the Prudential Building later in the afternoon, probably around...
...Phils, who have been the butt of most baseball jokes since Shibe Park became Connie Mack Stadium, probably will inspire a whole new series of jokes this coming season. The Phils did quite a bit of dealing over the winter--but it is doubtful that General Manager Paul Owens bluffed anybody. New acquisitions Dave Cash and Ron Schueler are good ball players, but they are not miracle men--so the Philly fans needn't delude themselves. Of course the big question mark is Steve Carlton. If the big lefty will stop endorsing products and start pitching like...
...minister of England. From time to time, the characters explain that they are at least more honest than England's unpunished rich people, but mostly they're too busy trying to sell each other out. At the end, Macheath the highwayman--the original of Weill's and Brecht's Mack the Knife, in their updated Threepenny Opera--stands with a rope around his neck while a beggar-narrator explains that for strict poetical Justice he'll have to be hanged and all the other characters hanged or transported, but that as in operas it doesn't matter how absurdly things...