Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novello is the author of 22 plays (of which only two have been flops). His triumphant Dancing Years is still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep...
...midnight drew near, crowds jammed the Senate galleries like spectators at a dance marathon. The House had finished its work with a comfortable margin; its members were lustily singing barbershop chords and happily contemplating a five-month vacation...
Koreans liked him. When he appeared in public, young Koreans crowded around, as eager to see Lyuh as American kids are to shake hands with Babe Ruth. He was head of the Korean Amateur Athletic Association, helped make the marathon Korea's national sport...
...confused political situation, and rather gloomily look for further internal chaos before the nation settles down to work. The Swiss are practiced observers of the world scene and, perhaps through wishful thinking, are optimistic over the ultimate future of Britain and France. They might be likened to a small marathon runner poised at the starting line while the bigger fellows argue and go through setting-up exercises. Sweden, of course, is having 'Russia trouble,' and wishing it were just a bad dream...
...remainder of the evening WHCN will present a new kind of marathon show, this one known as Ballad Orgy, which will put on display about all the folk records in Cambridge plus any live talent that happens to drop around...