Word: marathoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fields' marathon is not a happy one financially and his troubles are many. As in the past, he is pestered by a cantankerous customer who comes into his drugstore to buy a stamp; and he has difficulties with a small automobile (an Austin this time). Assisting Mr. Fields is that extraordinary Gourmand Chaz Chase, who smokes and eats a cigar, then a bunch of carnations, then half a dozen packets of matches, after which he licks his fingertips with relish...
That shone on Troy and Marathon...
...Marvin Nelson, husky Iowa swimmer: $10,000 and the 15-mi. Canadian National Exhibition Marathon in the warm waters of Lake Ontario from a field of 173 contestants. Time: 7 hr. 43 min. 36 sec. Anne Benoit, only woman entrant, winner of last month's unhealthy Around-Manhattan swim (TIME, Aug. 4), fell far behind, was finally fished...
Clarence De Mar, marathon runner, schoolteacher, on his way to lecture, missed his train, trotted 38 mi. from Harrison to Portland. Me., took another train, got there on time...
...course was 48 hr. 4 min., but they had been fresh enough to do the final lap of 26 mi., in the fast time of 2 hr. 18 min. 40 sec., 4 min. 50 sec. ahead of the U. S. team of Joie Ray and Johnny Salo. Marathon followers took due note of the victory, recalling that small, wiry Gavuzzi had run two years ago in C. C. Pyle's Bunion Derby and had done well enough...