Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saturday's run will be at Franklin Parkm Boston, starting at 3:45 p.m. Vogel, who has run several times in Boston's annual Patriot's Day Marathon, promises to be in good shape...
High points of the Games are the high points of the film: The amazing four-victory running of Fanny Blanyers-Koen of Holland, the high-speed excitement of ski jumpers and bobsledders, the gruelling ordeal of the marathon, the complete mastery of corn-fed American track and field stars. Periodic shots of the crowds at Wembly Stadium have been chosen with taste and occasional wit, and the overall effect is pleasantly spectacular. The parts of the narration handled by Ted Husing and Bill Stern are not up to the work of several English commentators; but they are at least competent...
...Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
...There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda, and to the fact that he was "neither a liar nor an evildoer, neither I nor any of my family...
...have studied your issue of June 14 from cover to cover, and nowhere do I find your weekly report of Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr's marathon prescription for the elimination of sin and wrong-thinking. You have so accustomed us to this treatment, week in & week out, that no longer can we find peace without our regular dosage...