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Brown, who never was higher than third man on last year's Yarding team, is presently rated number two man, ahead of Reider. Holmes, who gained local prominence by finishing 27th in the Boston Marathon last spring, is McCurdy's choice for fourth...
AFTER his marathon coverage of Washington's Governor Langlie for this week's cover story, Seattle Bureau Chief Robert Schulman had the uneasy feeling that he had just about become a member of the Langlie household. So did the governor. "One day last week." Schulman told me, "Governor Langlie mused out loud: 'Should I look into adoption procedures...
...marathon started early in July, when Schulman met the governor, his wife and their daughter Carrie Ellen in Seattle. "We talked about everything from Langlie's newly announced keynote-speech assignment at the Republican Convention to his golf handicap," Schulman recalled. At the end the governor had two requests: 1) for the first draft of his keynote speech he wanted a copy of Schulman's notes on his political philosophy, which, Langlie felt, he had just expressed as cogently as he could remember, and 2) could their next meeting be purely social? "On any other basis...
...army officer who had a reputation in Cracow as an elegant, free-spending man about town with good connections. His present fame, however, was centered on the charge that he had done in six people and had had a go at two others in an astounding murder marathon that rivaled Alec Guinness' movie Kind Hearts and Coronets. Since the trial began, authorities had received denunciations accusing Mazurkiewicz of some 50 other unsolved murders. "People are crediting me with too much," he said modestly. "I planned only eight murders. I want the record straight...
...almost ten hours Toronto's Cliff Lumsden and California's Tom Park swam shoulder to shoulder around Absecon Island (N.J.), fighting for first place in Atlantic City's 26-mile saltwater marathon. They churned to the finish line like sprinters, but as Lumsden touched out Tom Park, the fickle crowd was looking elsewhere. Just ahead of the two men, Denmark's beautiful Greta Anderson, 29, first of the women competitors (who started half an hour before the men) was struggling back into the top of her bathing suit so that she could leave the water. Patient...