Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Skow, a longtime practitioner of mens sana in corpore sano. A former staff writer, Skow left New York City 15 years ago for the salubrious airs of the country. On his 45-acre New Hampshire farm, he chops the wood that heats his house and repairs stone fences. A runner, Skow also enjoys tennis, canoeing, skiing and hiking. In 1971 he climbed the 24,500-ft. Mt. Noshaq in Afghanistan...
...tortoise, all because he has begun daily sessions on an exercise bicycle. Nothing stimulates the gag reflex so quickly as news photos of entire families-mom, dad and six children-jogging in identical warmup suits. And nothing is more appalling than, as a 10-to 15-mile-a-week runner (which is to say a moderate lunatic; some glittery-eyed types run 100 miles a week), to hear the deadening quack of zealotry come from one's own mouth. Long-distance runners are lonely because they are insufferable...
...general, it's a positive addiction," says Bernard Gutin, a runner who is professor of applied physiology at Teachers College at Columbia. "Running seems to do away with linear thought; same with meditation. A lot of people find that they get creative solutions to problems. I suspect that the euphoria comes from emitting a lot of alpha waves, although there has been no study...
Providence led the NCAA qualifying tourney the entire way, eventually winning with a team aggregate of 620 strokes. Holy Cross posted a total of 634 to finish as runner up. Harvard needed 640 strokes to wind up one stroke in back of Yale and a stroke ahead of Dartmouth...
...silent-screen star who appeared in more than 350 movies; in Manhattan. Born Jack Krantz, he changed his name when Hollywood producers slated him to follow Rudolph Valentino in romantic parts with such actresses as Greta Garbo, Clara Bow and Dolores Del Rio. As a boy, he was a runner on Wall Street, and in later life became a stockbroker...