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Nurses swish up and down the hall in an endless marathon. White coats wheel frightening machines in and out of doorways. Parents habitually come and go during visiting hours. The arrival of dinner wagons for listless appetites is strictly punctual. Everywhere there is white and order: the stiff jackets, smocks, and bandages, the precise reports and charts, the crisp doctors and nurses. Amidst these antiseptic surroundings, in the children's ward of a large metropolitan hospital, spontaneous good times are rare. Someone from outside must bring diversion...
Convalescing from writer's cramp after a marathon of autographing some 4,000 copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Asked if the second volume of his reminiscences, to be published next February, will stir up any fuss, jaunty Author Truman grinned: "I might have to go live in Timbuktu...
...self-propelled crossing of the English Channel, Marathon Swimmer Florence Chadwick, 36, of San Diego, set a new speed record, splashing ashore in France 13 hr., 55 min. after leaving England. Her time was eleven minutes faster than the record set in August by English Swimmer Bill Pickering...
...also owns Universal C.I.T., the nation's No. 2 auto-finance company). Service Fire had put more than three-quarters of its policyholders in Class Two, the most expensive risk group, although most of them belonged in Class One, the lowest premium category.* Subsequently, five more companies (Cavalier, Marathon, Consolidated Lloyds, Calvert Fire, Home Service) also were found to be overcharging. All the offenders complained that it was impossible to get enough information to classify policyholders properly. But the Texas commissioners pointed to the fact that Motors Insurance, subsidiary of General Motors Acceptance Corp., the nation...
Under Costain's pen, the tontine loses all drama and suspense, becomes simply a century-long marathon dance of unreal, Victorian marionettes...