Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York, city-owned, noncommercial station WNYC announced that it will devote all next week to one program series -an examination of U.S. education. This marathon, arranged to mark the station's 30th anniversary, will push every program except music and news off the air. Participants range from such college presidents as Harvard's Nathan Pusey, Columbia's Grayson Kirk and Colgate's Everett Case to TV's erudite (M.A. Columbia '39) Comedian Sam Levenson, who is billed as a "Teacher and Human Being." Among the more than 100 topics: "The Vanishing Report Card...
...Boston, Finland's Veikko Karvonen, runner-up a year ago, won the annual (since 1897) Boston Marathon. Time: 2:20:39, one minute and 48 seconds off the record...
...virtually unknown freshman, Gabriel Mirken, butran all other College runners in the Boston Marathon yesterday to finish 83rd in the large field...
...other marathon activity yesterday, the Harvard track team won the team trophy for the 5 1/2 mile Lexing ton run. Hal Gerry led the team with a second place finish. Other placers were Hubie Maguire, 10th; Alden Carpenter, a freshman, 11th; and Jerry Maguire, 13th...
Nobody is quite sure what Patriots' Day commemorates. It has been rumored to be an observance of the first running of the Boston Marathon, the founding of Harvard College and the birthday of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy...