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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Margaret Ravior, three-time winner of the Toronto women's marathon swim; and George Young, winner of last year's Toronto men's marathon; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...First National) is an infinitely less handsome picture than The Kid from Spain (see col. 2) but it follows the same pattern. Instead of being forced by circumstance and his own idiocy to be a bullfighter, its addled hero (Joe E. Brown) finds himself the favored entrant in a marathon swimming race. This is a predicament: he does not know how to swim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Academy Awards | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...Still, this was nothing new. Men have marched so down the ages. They marched in Athens and Nineveh and Marathon, fighting their various Armageddons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Best Reporting | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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