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...Money's on Kelly in the Boston Marathon this afternoon. Via Framingham, Natick and Wellesley Hills, a twenty-six mile route ending at the B.A.A...
...ended last week the four-month mental marathon that had accomplished the transformation of an egghead into a TV darling (TIME, Feb. 11 et seq.). By failing to name Belgium's King Baudouin, Van Doren lost the game on NBC's Twenty One to Mrs. Vivienne Nearing, a blonde barrister who had tied him for two weeks running. The loss shaved Van Doren's take from $143,000 to $129,000, still the largest prize ever awarded on any single program. Income taxes will slice this sum plus the annual $4,500 he gets as an English...
...friends and family of Charles Van Doren, most of the fascination of his mental marathon is not what he says-which is fascinating enough-but the fact that he can say anything at all before the implacable eye of the television camera. "Why, I couldn't say a word up there with those earphones and all," marvels one distinguished Columbia scholar. "I'd come completely unstuck...
...Sheer Impertinence." In his marathon reply to Noon, stonewalling Krishna Menon tediously led the Security Council through a nine-year maze of military reports, diplomatic exchanges, ministerial conferences, press clippings and gossip. To demonstrate the justice of India's position, he ranged from the status of Texas after the Civil War to Australian constitutional law. Out of it all emerged one clear point: India had no intention of permitting a plebiscite in Kashmir...
...disease. Once it's got you, nothing stops you." He has grand plans for future races in Chicago, St. Louis and New York, but there is a lot of pedaling ahead before the six-day whirl to nowhere comes back from the limbo that has swallowed marathon dances, flagpole sitting, bunion derbies and other rowdy remnants of sport's daffier days...