Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale match is the marathon of Ivy tennis matches, for instead of the usual six singles and three doubles, the two teams will play ten singles and five doubles. As a result much will depend on the ability of the green lower echelon men to win their matches...
...high point of the afternoon was the number one doubles match which Harvard won by the amazing score of 16-14, 7-5. Bud Ager and Hilliard Hughes were the players in this marathon match...
...racial and religious groups). Milton, whose interest in the ponies used to keep a bookie stationed in his dressing room, is now plugging hard at being a public-spirited citizen: last month he raised $1,100,000 in pledges for cancer research on a backbreaking 16-hour NBC-TV marathon show...
Much of Berle's free entertaining has been in good causes. He has probably played more benefits than any other performer-as many as seven in one night. In 1946, he set up the Milton Berle Foundation for Crippled Children. He has done marathon radio shows (from 12-24 hours) in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh to raise funds for heart associations. Last year he spent four hours clowning with each of 75 patients in a Chicago hospital for children with rheumatic fever. Said a witness: "He has a way with kids, a way of being...
...Lord Jeffs gave the Crimson quite a battle, in spite of the score, gaining a split in the six singles matches and forcing two marathon 14-12 sets...