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...come near to breaking during the trial-during the heat of late July. Then he left the court one day and lay down in an anteroom, a suddenly old and exhausted man who was almost convinced he would never be able to return to the grueling legal marathon into which he had been thrown...
...lounge. For medium-range flights, Britain had the Vickers 4O-passenger Viscount and Armstrong Whitworth's 31-passenger Apollo, both turboprops. For feeder-lines, it had both De Havilland's reciprocating engined Dove (eight to eleven passengers) and Handley Page's 22-passenger turboprop, the Mamba Marathon.* But the star of the show at Farnborough was De Havilland's 36-passenger Comet, the first four-engined jet transport, which took off and then flashed overhead at better than 500 m.p.h...
...marathon match was necessitated because the number four singles was played three hours ahead of the rest of the match and late afternoon rain forced some of the games into the Brookline Country Club that evening...
...Yale match is the marathon of Ivy tennis matches, for instead of the usual six singles and three doubles, the two teams will play ten singles and five doubles. As a result much will depend on the ability of the green lower echelon men to win their matches...
...high point of the afternoon was the number one doubles match which Harvard won by the amazing score of 16-14, 7-5. Bud Ager and Hilliard Hughes were the players in this marathon match...