Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promoters in other cities have been watching the production with great interest. Perhaps they plan to institute similar productions all over the country. And well they might. An election marathon has infinitely greater possibilities than six day bicycle racing. It is a much funnier and far less tiring form of indoor sport...
...stroke of New Year's, the Rev. B. R. Minton of Covington, Ind. launched a 74-hour marathon reading of the Bible's 1,189 chapters. The reading was done by some 150 of his Assembly of God Pentecostal parishioners in 30-minute shifts, was broadcast day & night over a public address system. Said Pastor Minton: "We hope the idea catches fire in other communities...
Vogel seems like a hure thing to represent this country at London next summer in the marathon. He'll run the mile against Captain Frank Gurley tomorrow. Palmieri, who is gunning for a 440-yard hurdles berth on the Olympic team, will meet Dave Hamblett and Jim Wheeler of the Crimson in the 600. "This should be a very interesting race," Coach Mikkola predicted yesterday...
...Yorker, which pokes fun at other people's marathon sentences in its "Nonstop Sentence Derby," got a new entry from its own stable: New Yorker Book Critic Edmund Wilson. Reviewing The Times of Melville and Whitman, Wilson began a sentence: "The fluent presentation of all this-." By the time he came to rest on a period, Wilson had used 384 words, 61 lines of type, five sets of quotation marks and 26 commas...
...night last week, reams of copy piled up alarmingly in the composing room of Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun. Deadlines came & went, but the battery of Linotypes stood silent. The printers were holding a marathon "chapel meeting," and the union was in no rush to adjourn. When the Sun went to press, nine hours late, it was in makeshift dress: lacking type, it ran pages of photo-engraved typewriting...