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...Marathon runners are lonely men. We stood on a hill in Newton and watched the first ten of them pass. Before the leader came running evenly up the hill the balloon salesmen and the ice-cream salesmen and the newsboys and the police had prepared things...
...Yong Ham of Korea won the annual BAA marathon yesterday in 2:32:39; John Lafferty was the first American, at 2:39:52; and David L. Smith '51 was the first Harvard finisher, somewhere around 4:20. Smith was 71st...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue won another round in its marathon bout against so-called non-profit clubs which pay no income tax. Last week the California branch of the American Automobile Association lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, was told it must pay taxes back to 1943. If the decision is applied to all 750 branches of the A.A.A. with its 2,170,000 members, the total amount of taxes due could reach...
...Elio Vittorini's In Sicily, a sad, smoldering look at Italian poverty and hopelessness under Mussolini. It came with a blessing from Ernest Hemingway, who had postponed his own long-awaited postwar novel to whip out a short one promised for the summer of 1950 under the marathon title, Across the River and into the Trees...
...Roller Derby is good entertainment. It can be fairly exciting and if you pick a night when the competitors happen to be in a particularly surly mood, I suppose it could be downright dangerous. The Roller Derby appears to have more staying power than another Seltzer concoction, the Marathon Dance, and is no doubt worthwhile observing--mainly for chuckles...