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Varsity two-miler Walt Hewlett was the first collegian and only the sixth American across the finish line in yesterday's 26-mile BAA Marathon. Nearly 400 runners entered the race. Hewlett's time of 2:32:44, only 12:45 off the winning pace of Belgium's Aurele Van den Driessche, was the best finish ever by a Harvard runner in the 63-year-old Patriots' Day classic...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that even vast quantities of liquor cannot kill...
Harvard opened its swing through Dixie Tuesday with a 6-3 win over Hampden-Sydney, then routed Lynchburg 15-3, edged Richmond twice, 2-1 and 2-0, and played to a 1-1 standstill in a 16-inning marathon at Johns Hopkins Saturday...
DYLAN. Alec Guinness as Dylan Thomas during his U.S. reading tours keeps up a marathon dance of death, pacing it with poetry, word plays, promises-unkept-and an inner pain that liquor cannot kill...
...Harvard graduate now teaching in Nigeria characterized the selection process this way: "It is quite unnerving to arrive at the training site and be told that all obstacles are still before you and then to be subjected to a marathon of psychological tests and interviews. In a short time everyone is extremely careful to avoid appearing concerned about the Sword of Damocles hanging overhead--a sure sign that all are concerned. It is really unavoidable. You are constantly agonizing over the answers you made to the last questionnaire, wondering whether an occasional flippancy (absolutely irresistible! I assmume you're acquainted...