Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Substandard. In Higashi Village, Japan, the women's youth corps put 50 youths through a husband qualification test which included a marathon run, a rice-bag-carrying race, chinning the bar and plowing, flunked...
Milton Berle Marathon (Sat. noon, NBC). Fourth annual drive for the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund...
...Most Fascinated." South Dakota was almost the last lap in the marathon Robert Alphonso Taft has been doggedly running for at least 14 and possibly for 43 years. In 1909, when President William Howard Taft was inaugurated, his eldest son Bob, then 19, rode down Pennsylvania Avenue in a chugging auto with his sister Helen and his little brother Charles, 11. Charles (now the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio) had brought along a copy of Treasure Island to read, because he suspected that the ceremony would be "pretty dry." But Helen (now Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, a professor...
...third baseman on the varsity baseball team and captain-elect of the ski team will be up against a tough opponent in Kerima, Known to be tough in the clinches. She is the star of the Outcast of the Islands, who was written up in Life for the famous "Marathon Kiss" which occurs in the movie, the longest ever allowed on film in this country...
Twenty-Five Knots. In one marathon session, determined old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the occupation chiefs of France, Britain and the U.S. untangled 25 of the last remaining knots. Within the week, the peace should be made. It gives Western Germany and its 48 million people more sovereignty than the conquerors of seven years ago dreamed then of giving so soon, but less than the West Germans now demand...