Word: marathoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees, with Al Bernie and entertainers; Charles R. Allen, President of the Class; Hopell and Cole in Feats of Strength; Johnny Kelley, winner of the B.A.A. Marathon...
...afternoon of sport. The pain of the blisters caused him to hurry into first place. A few minutes after becoming violently sick, a little more than two and a half hours after he had started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much too sore to stand, with lungs much too exhausted to speak. Runner Kelley vomited again, allowed his head to be crowned with the first-prize laurel wreath...
...Boston Marathon, its city's No. 1 sport event, is annually held on Patriot's Day. That Patriot's Day last week coincided with Good Friday served only to increase the excitement of the 500,000 enthusiasts who, as usual, lined the 26-mi. course from Hopkinton to Exeter Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden...
...notion that marathon races are cruel is debatable. Marathon runners undoubtedly enjoy them. When he regained enough strength and composure last week, skinny, sad-faced John Adelbert Kelley, who became one of this year's favorites by finishing second last year, explained about himself. He is the oldest child in a family of ten sired by an Arlington (Mass.) letter-carrier. William J. Kelley, a marathon enthusiast, took young John Adelbert to see Frank Zuna wobble across he finish line on Patriot's Day in 1921. Favorably impressed, 13-year-old John Adelbert Kelley thereupon went into training...
...successive days last week the ghost of Johann Sebastian Bach hovered in the wings of Manhattan's Town Hall. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the great composer's birth, Pianist Harold Samuel gave six Bach programs which, added together, took more than twelve hours. When the marathon was ended no member of the audience questioned Samuel's reputation as the prime interpreter of Bach's piano music. The 55-year-old Briton set about his task modestly, unaffectedly. At the piano he made a bulky unimpressive figure, seemed all forehead and shirt front...