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...Harvard students will compete with more than 200 foreign and American stars in the colorful Boston Marathon tomorrow. Seniors James J. Pates, Jr. and William H. Chrisman, 2nd will enter the event for the second and third times respectively. Chrisman placed 88th and Pates 99th in last year's Marathon...
...Marathon affords several distractions for the runners. Besides the Wellesley students who traditionally show up on masse at the course's half-way point, an additional 750,000 spectators are expected to line the whole route...
...long a symbol of comfort and repose in every habitant farmhouse, was transformed into a device of frenzy and fatigue in Quebec last week. A wave of rocking-chair contests called bercethons (from the French bercer-to rock) swept the province. Quebec was suffering a virulent recurrence of the marathon mania of the '305, with rockerthons, pianothbns, poolothons and countless other forms of zany endurance tests under way in almost every village and town...
Although other kinds of marathons were dreamed up, including even a haircutting marathon for barbers, the bercethon really caught on. Local dignitaries presided as judges. Business firms sponsored entries. Prizes, raised by contributions from eager crowds, ranged up to $1,000 for the contestant who could stay awake, rest only three minutes every three hours, keep one foot on the floor at all times, and outrock his rivals. The current champion is Aime Lavoie, a 33-year-old Cap St. Ignace deckhand, who rocked for 81 hours, 3 minutes and 52 seconds...
Crissman jokingly suggested he might have placed better with a map in his hands. At any rate, before the April marathon he expects to sneak a topographical cram-session into his twice-weekly workouts...