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Distance running is for ascetics. By tradition, the sport is dominated by men with little natural speed who love to lope and to win. Such men are willing to undertake years of thankless training to whip their bodies into lean and tireless machines. They must discipline their will to the self-torture of laboring lap after lap, mile after mile. Most of the top distance runners are well into their 20s, and often beyond. But this year the perennial stars are being run into the boards by a Canadian high school senior: 17-year-old Bruce Kidd, the neighborhood newsboy...
...Harvard Overseer and retired Episcopal Bishop Malcolm Peabody, the ex-wife of Attorney Desmond Fitzgerald. To Britons, she is now the wife of onetime Tory M.P. Ronald Tree, a multimillionaire investment banker in the land of his grandfather, the original Marshall Field. To New Yorkers, she is the tireless worker for interracial amity who was once a director of the National Urban League. To Democrats, she is a dedicated campaigner and state committeewoman whose tastefully opulent town house in 1952 became the salon of her party's intellectual shadow Cabinet and the saloon of the rank and file. Recalls...
...compact 5 ft. 8 in., 170 lbs., Tokle smokes and drinks ("It hasn't hurt me yet"), credits his longevity as a jumper to his trade: "As a carpenter, I get eight hours of exercise a day." To strengthen his legs and ankles, the tireless Tokle is fond of turning a barrel on its side, hopping on top and running at full tilt while it spins beneath him ("You ought to try it sometime...
...nomination had to be made by the state convention. But on the hustings, Roman Catholic Miller showed himself a fluent speaker and shrewd public relations man. An Air Force Reserve colonel trained in the Plans Section of SAC, Miller is a specialist in farm tax law, a tireless advocate of tax reform and economy in government...
Gradually, she found herself becoming intersted in constitutional law and comparative national government. And then, with the fight for female franchise just beginning to gather force, Maud Wood Park (Radcliffe '93) ventured into the Midwest to drum up support for her nation-wide College Equal Suffrage League. With her tireless intellectual energy and immense personal charm, Mrs. Parks, later to chair the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the crucial years of 1917 to 1920, immediately won over the girls at Western Reserve. "The girls in college who were the leaders--the bright, up and coming...