Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foley Square courthouse, where Alger Hiss stood trial and where the party's eleven leaders lost their 1949 marathon with the law, attorneys for the newly arrested comrades fussed loudly about bail. Originally it was set at $277,500, so that the Commies would think twice about jumping bail as Gerhart Eisler did, but later it was trimmed to $176,000. To the Reds' rescue, as usual, came wealthy Party-Liner Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who put up $31,000 in U.S. bonds, $5,000 in cash, enough to spring four...
...reward for able, patient handling of the marathon 1949 trial of the eleven Communist leaders, he appointed District Judge Harold R. Medina, 63, to the seat on the U.S. circuit court vacated by the famed Learned Hand, 79, who retired last fortnight...
...Doodles Weaver Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBCTV) features a rubber-faced comic addicted to such Ed Wynn mannerisms as puns, hand-flutterings and funny hats. The opening show, interrupted by Milton Berle's 22-hour TV marathon for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund and by filmed commercials for Lysol and a deodorant called Etiquet, was a melange of sight gags that didn't quite come off, monologues and studio interviews. Three burlesque comedians and Singer Marion Colby, billed as "the girl with the most beautiful legs in TV," take over when Comedian Weaver's energy begins...
...goods 6% cheaper for cash. "A misleading claim," snapped Executive Vice President Louis Broido. "Nobody can continuously undersell everybody else on everything by 6% or 60% while rendering equivalent services . . . Every thinking person knows [this] just isn't true." But Gimbels didn't quit the price marathon. "Waltz us around again Willie," sang its ads. "If somebody plays the tune, we'll dance and dance . . ." Macy's didn't get tired, either, kept cutting prices...
...greatest sweepstakes in Law School history ended Wednesday in a third year class in Evidence. Barry Golumb 3L and Joseph S. Dow 3L, the unwitting principals of a three month talking marathon, were neck and neck going into the last two days. Each had answered 38 guestions at the lectures...