Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...
...Last week, at Columbia University, Sevellon Brown helped open the first seminar of the American Press Institute. Thirty-eight publishers had thought enough of his idea to chip in $170,000 to finance a two-year trial run. Aim: through marathon bull sessions, to add a cubit to the stature of the U.S. press. Plan: for two to four weeks each, groups of 25 working newspapermen (average age of the first 25 students, 44; average newspaper experience, 22 years) would face a tougher grind than any undergraduate class. They would live, study and argue together, from eight to twelve hours...
...Fuji carrying a heavy stone on his back. Next he ran 56 miles from Shirakawa to Fukushima. Last week he topped all previous feats by trotting nonstop from his hometown to Tokyo's Ueno Station. The distance": 117 miles, five times the historic run from Marathon to Athens. The time: 29 hours...
...they do recover sufficient composure to compete for a berth among the marathon men, Crimson newcomers will join an aggregation that complied one of the best records in college history. Among last spring's Varsity victims were Tufts, Connecticut, Rhode Island State, Holy Cross, Yale, Dartmouth and Princeton...