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...amateur championships, amateur hot-shots stumbled and fell. Billy Joe Patton, the hard-hitting Carolina lumber dealer was cut down in the second round; last year's runner-up, Charles Kocsis, was bumped in the fifth; Willie Turnesa, winner in 1938 and 1948, lost a 24-hole marathon to an unknown Florida insurance underwriter named Jack Penrose. Just as he began to get his game under control, Robbins found himself in the finals, matched with his Walker Cup teammate, Dr. Frank ("Bud") Taylor, 40, a Pomona, Calif. dentist...
...Ernie Kovacs rehearses his confusion." says one TV producer, "but Jack Paar just creates it." Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite...
...elected to the state senate since 1892. Alternating with Laredo's Abraham Kazen Jr., 38, Freshman Senator Gonzalez (who perfected his speech as a child by practicing with pebbles in his mouth, "like Demosthenes") ranged the course of world history and literature to flesh out his marathon talk. Quoting hugely from Herodotus, the Prophet Jeremiah, John Donne and many another classic, he dazzled his colleagues -and almost wore them down-with his panegyric on freedom and on the crucial need for racial equality...
...this point, the Crimson's reserve of strong players, who are just off the top six, proved decisive. Al Goldman, at fifth singles, defeated Joe Turner, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5, in a two and one-half hour marathon. In the sixth spot, Ned Weld topped Tom Davidson, 6-1, 6-2, to give the varsity a 4-2 margin in the singles...
...first time since 1945, a U.S. citizen won Boston's Patriots' Day Marathon. Schoolteacher John J. Kelley, 26, of Groton, Conn, breezed home in 2 hr. 20 min. 5 sec. Running the 1,000th race of his career, and finishing a creditable 13th: John A. Kelley, 49 (no kin to John J.), the 1945 and 1935 winner...