Word: marathoning
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...Acapulco or bust" cried 80-odd 'Cliffedwelling mermaids this week as they breasted, crawled, and dog-paddled through Radcliffe's annual marathon which kept the Mason Street pool in a state of frenzy for five hectic afternoons. The distance from here to Acapulco was as nothing to the Amazons, since each length of the pool was considered 12 miles...
...marathon at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was half over, and no one seemed to be tiring. By last week 2,760 seat-holders and 100 standees had heard half of the more than 170 piano compositions Chopin wrote; in another month of weekly recitals they will have heard just about all of them...
...waste of time to play it, and no service to Chopin." When he had arranged his programs, Brailowsky memorized all 172 pieces. In 22 years he has played the cycle 15 times in Paris, Brussels, Zurich, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and New York. Never before has his Chopin marathon sold sot well in Manhattan, helped this year by the movie-fed boom in Chopin...
Nothing doing, said Marathon. Reason: while Johnson was away, Marathon had spent about $20 million on expansion, had boosted its output at Marathon, Ont. from 50,000 to over 200,000 cords a year; thus Johnson's annual income under his bonus contract, instead of being about $20,000, would now be over $30,000. Rehiring him at this figure was "not . . . feasible...
...Crown took his case to court. Last week at Port Arthur, Magistrate Walter Russell found Marathon guilty of "lack of intention or refusal to obey the law," fined it $400 (plus costs), ordered it to pay Colonel Johnson $12,158 (twelve weeks' salary and bonus). But Johnson did not get his job back. For Marathon, which had made no bones about its penny-pinching objective, this was cheap. Said jobless Colonel Johnson of the court's award: "With Christmas so close, it's very nice...