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Died. Peter Foley, 87, the 26-mile Boston Marathon's Methuselah; in Winchester, Mass. Rating his best place (twelfth) at 50, the white-and-pink-trunked gnome finished 41st in a field of 100 when he was 70, hung up his shoes at 82. He trained on long walks, short ales...
...Series," successor to the Radio Guild, started off in 1938 and in 1938-39 went on a grand tour of the ages, opening with Blanche Yurka in The Trojan Women. Other items that year: Molière, Tolstoi and George Bernard Shaw's own adaptation of Back to Methuselah. In the last three years this sort of thing has been overshadowed by commercial radio theaters, the fresh work of the Columbia Workshop, variety shows...
...rare, melodious twang was heard this week on U.S. airwaves. The twangs came from an instrument which legend says was invented by a son of Methuselah-the lute, an instrument resembling an archaic mandolin. Rare too was the young lutanist who plunk-a-plunked and sang ballads on an NBC Sunday sustainer. Richard Dyer-Bennet, 28-year-old minstrel, is probably the only U.S. radio entertainer listed in Burke's Peerage...
...lute (called al'ud in Arabic) originated in the Near East, where Turks, Arabs, Armenians, Greeks still play it. It was suggested to the legendary son of Methuselah by the sight of the skeleton leg of his own dead son, whose body he had suspended (it was the custom) from a tree. The lute's body represented the thighbone, its long neck, the leg bone; its bent head, the foot; its tuning pegs, the toes; its strings, the dried veins fluttering from the bones. The lute was the great instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance until...
Magistrate Pinto, sighing, last week dismissed the charge, shooed out the massive Methuselah. "Go along now. Try to behave from now on." The iron man breathed heavily, took a reef in his galluses, clumped home to his dogs and cats and the 21-ft. snake in the dusty...