Word: marathoning
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...first marathon (490 B.C.) killed the winner, Pheidippides.* But skinny, bandy-legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...
...yesterday at the hands of the NROTC Company 3A, 43 to 25, sinking still lower into last place. Also trounced 41 to 35, the Gold Coasters gave another boost towards the championship to a high riding Standish Freshman five led by Dick Firth, who netted 15 points. In this marathon, the score was tied at the end of the regulation time and it took two overtimes before the affair was finally settled...
Hill & Daler. In India, Aboo Nagha, 60, whose daily diet consists of one meal, three cups of tea, no alcohol, 25 cigarets, was honored at the Bombay Olympic Games for finishing a 26-mile marathon, deserted by his wife, who considered him "unsatisfying...
...handful of men <& boys had gone up with wings and, though outnumbered, was fighting the Luftwaffe to a standstill. Was not that aerial battle the Marathon of World War II? "Never. . ." the cigar-chewer had said, "was so much owed by so many...
Since You Went Away (Selznick-United Artists). The duck that hatched a swan was lucky compared to David Oliver Selznick. He hatched Gone With the Wind and has been trying to hatch another ever since. Last week he punctuated four pictureless years* with Since You Went Away, a marathon of home-front genre-filming. Sure enough, it was no Gone With the Wind. The Wind blew for four solid hours; Went goes on for ten minutes short of three. The Wind cost $4,000,000 to make; Went, a mere $2,400,000. The Wind was photographed in some...