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Then Brittin decided to qualify for the Boston Marathon, realizing he had to shave a half an hour off his previous time, a herculean feat. So, in pursuit of the lower time, he entered the Virginia Beach Rotary Shamrock Marathon in March...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Four Will Face the Marathon | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

...education that he can absorb." Equally attractive was the declared "right of every American to as healthy a life as modern medicine can provide." The N.M.A. had won a different sort of recognition earlier in the week simply by meeting in Houston, where its presence at the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel, and even in its pool, elevated some eyebrows. "I don't know what the whites are scared of," said one Negro doctor. "These are their kind of people. There are more Toms here than on a turkey farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: THE PLIGHT OF THE BLACK DOCTOR | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

...unlikely reservoirs of genius. Perhaps the most extreme example in this regard is the moment when Poitier snatches a weed off the accelerator of the victim's car and, a knowing smile on his face, says "Osmunda, a fern root," Which is all very well and good in a Shamrock Holmes story...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: In the Heat of the Night | 9/26/1967 | See Source »

...Johnson is resplendent in purple, the royal color, but burdened with weights: a difficult war, the clamor for peace, and L.B.J. himself. After all, what with "image" difficulties and credibility gaps, the President can be his own worst handicap. Peering out from behind Johnson is Bobby Kennedy in shamrock green. Behind him is an aloof Hubert Humphrey, only slightly touched by the presidential purple (some people are more purple than others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Apr. 14, 1967 | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...cantatas were both arranged by Joshua Rivkin; one became famous on the Elektra album "The Baroque Beatles Book," and the other premiered -- minus staging -- at Lincoln Center this summer. The second is a great piece of doggerel from "A Spaniard in the Works" in which Thomas Weber, as detective Shamrock Wombls, solves "The Singularge Experience of Miss Ann Duffield" and explains, "Harry Belafonte, my dear Whopper...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Bach and the Beatles | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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