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Owner Brecker spiced Roseland's entertainment with female prizefights, yo-yo exhibitions, sneezing contests, and dozens of highly publicized jazz weddings, uniting couples who had found romance in Roseland's violet twilight. His finest inspiration, until it was banned by the police, was the dance marathon. To avoid the wrath of Mayor Jimmy Walker, he once carted a truckload of still-dancing marathoners to an excursion steamer and took them out beyond the three-mile limit, where they all became violently sick at the rail...
...boiling, Writers Salomon and Richard Hanser lost or overlooked some of the decade's juicy memories, e.g., the Scopes "monkey" trial, marathon dancing, flagpole sitting, Billy Sunday, the bathing beauty, Florida's real-estate boom, the Sacco-Vanzetti case-even (unaccountably) the advent of radio broadcasting. But the '20s had flavor to spare, and Jazz Age catches the tangy essences that should send oldtimers on a sentimental binge and plunge the younger set into wistful incredulity...
...about Sir Laurence Olivier and Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, who were busy kissing from right after breakfast one morning until suppertime. It was not private smooching, but a scene, slated to grace the screen for only a few seconds, shot repeatedly for their new movie, The Sleeping Prince. The buss marathon was played big by most of Britain's daily press. A thoughtful columnist ventured an analysis of what had prolonged the action: "Marilyn -so used to the torrid clinches of Hollywood films-was nervous of the more elegant style of Olivier. She giggled coyly -and fluffed several takes...
...remarkable display of depth, the varsity placed its entire 12-man squad ahead of the first M.I.T. team, and only a second place finish by B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion, George Hillier, deprived the Crimson of cross country's equivalent of the perfect game...
Main interest in the meet will be focussed upon a possible duel for first place between Reider and Ron Hillier, B.U.'s Canadian marathon champion...