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...Boston marathon tends to draw out a vein of exhibitionism in runners. Why elso would someone sweat out the course in a full tuxedo as one runner did Monday? "It's like the race is a parade and the runners are floats, only better," one runner said. Another hint for you prospectives: wear something catchy so the crowd will yell for you it can carry you through the race. Try, for example, a totem pole mask and a flowing blond wig, like one Japanese runner did this year...
...fund has boosted its total over the last five years through an extensive network of class agents in different areas of the country, and this year a big telephone soliciting marathon starting April 23 will help in their annual record-breaking gymnastics...
...arbitrary and ill-conceived decision, the BAA has chosen not to honor press requests from any college newspaper. That means the multitude of metropolitan Boston schools, whose students comprise a great bulk of the almost 8000 runners in the Marathon, will have no news of their athletes' accomplishments. The large, commercial dailies will not provide special attention to specific runners from specific schools--there are too many other concerns. Only the college papers have the space to write about their own athletes...
When BAA President Will Cloney '33 was asked this week how 'The Crimson--without credentials--could expect to cover properly the many Harvard runners in the Marathon, he could only respond, "I didn't know there were that many Harvard students in the race. I thought they were smarter than that...
While reporters from Oregon, Arizona, and California sit comfortably in the Prudential Tower press offices, writers from the Marathon's own backyard will be excluded. The students of Boston treat the Marathon with great respect, and we deserve more than the back of the BAA's hand in return...