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Summerville is a winter resort in South Carolina. At its paint-thirsty town hall last week, under a blazing sun that sent the temperature to 110°, two of its residents - a Finnish-born, 40-year-old doctor named Arne Suominen and an eleven-year-old race horse named Duke-began a 40-mile race.* The course: to Charleston (27 miles), then 13 miles around The Citadel's foot-racing track...
...Doctor Suominen once ran 100 miles from Chicago to Milwaukee (stopping only for orange juice), once ran 1,000 miles in one of C. C. Pyle's famed "bunion Derbies." But last week, after six hours, the hot pavement had so blistered his feet that he had to quit with only six more miles to go. Duke, still going strong, won by default...
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