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...tired undergraduates slapped their last slaps at 10 a.m. yesterday morning, after successfully completing their 48-hour marathon and pocketing a hard-earned $128. They were Oakleigh B. Thorne '54 and his roommate. Richard Mortimer '54, both of Leverett House and New York City...
Hence the claim to a world record reported in Boston newspapers was denied strenuously by Mortimer and Thorne last night. They attributed the statement to an over-sealous publicity man and then began a new marathon, sleeping instead of slapping...
...Leverett House roommates were still slapping each other silly but weakening fast in a 48-hour marathon for a $128 stake, when the CRIMSON went to press last night...
Christmas has become more than just so much goose, red cabbage, and egg-nog. Retailers have jazzed the festive season into the biggest promotion since the florists conceived Mothers Day. The result has been a marathon for the citizenry which is obliged to scour the shops and come up with something to prove it still believes in good will toward...
Using training he received at Harvard and Tufts, a Foreign Service Officer a now "marrying off some 1,000 G.I.'s to Japanese girls in a marathon race against the expiration date of the so-called Oriental War Brides Act." So writes Nyles Bond, who is second in command at our embassy in Japan, about Jim Martin--both of whom are graduates of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy...