Word: marathoning
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...Hollywood, the marathon auction of Hedy Lamarr's personal effects finally got down to the jewelry. Among the trinkets: four used wedding rings, knocked down for a total...
Flanked and followed by 360 cars, trucks and ambulances, containing doctors, managers, officials, timekeepers, mechanics, journalists, wives and mistresses, 123 racing cyclists of eight nations* last week began the 2,900-mile marathon that started in Metz, will cut through a corner of Belgium, down the middle of France to Marseille and the Riviera, back through Geneva to the finish line in Paris. Along the route some 20 million fans will shout themselves hoarse with cries of "Allez Bo-bet!", "Vas-y Barbotin!") "Bonne chance, Louis...
...gotten into any newspaper. These were filed away in his memory, and he began working them into enchanting monologues for the amusement of his friends. In the '20s and '30s, to sit with drink in hand and listen to Jim Thurber off on a free-association talking marathon was an indescribable pleasure...
...Foley Square courthouse, where Alger Hiss stood trial and where the party's eleven leaders lost their 1949 marathon with the law, attorneys for the newly arrested comrades fussed loudly about bail. Originally it was set at $277,500, so that the Commies would think twice about jumping bail as Gerhart Eisler did, but later it was trimmed to $176,000. To the Reds' rescue, as usual, came wealthy Party-Liner Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who put up $31,000 in U.S. bonds, $5,000 in cash, enough to spring four...
...Doodles Weaver Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBCTV) features a rubber-faced comic addicted to such Ed Wynn mannerisms as puns, hand-flutterings and funny hats. The opening show, interrupted by Milton Berle's 22-hour TV marathon for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and by filmed commercials for Lysol and a deodorant called Etiquet, was a melange of sight gags that didn't quite come off, monologues and studio interviews. Three burlesque comedians and Singer Marion Colby, billed as "the girl with the most beautiful legs in TV," take over when Comedian Weaver's energy begins...