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...racial and religious groups). Milton, whose interest in the ponies used to keep a bookie stationed in his dressing room, is now plugging hard at being a public-spirited citizen: last month he raised $1,100,000 in pledges for cancer research on a backbreaking 16-hour NBC-TV marathon show...
Much of Berle's free entertaining has been in good causes. He has probably played more benefits than any other performer-as many as seven in one night. In 1946, he set up the Milton Berle Foundation for Crippled Children. He has done marathon radio shows (from 12-24 hours) in New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Pittsburgh to raise funds for heart associations. Last year he spent four hours clowning with each of 75 patients in a Chicago hospital for children with rheumatic fever. Said a witness: "He has a way with kids, a way of being...
...Lord Jeffs gave the Crimson quite a battle, in spite of the score, gaining a split in the six singles matches and forcing two marathon 14-12 sets...
...three Harvard starters in the Boston Marathon yesterday, one never started, the second was definitely seen to get off an MTA bust marked "BAA, Emergency," and the third was last seen walking along the road at Wellesley...
Leaving the White House after a 45-minute conference with the President, Lucas glumly admitted: "This issue has to be met sooner or later." Democratic National Chairman J. Howard McGrath feared "the greatest marathon of all times" but promised: "We will fight it out to the bitter end, all summer and all winter if necessary." To his Rhode Island constituents, Senator McGrath declared: "Maybe you won't get all the housing or economic welfare you want. But if these things must wait upon human values then I say, 'Let them wait.'" This week the filibuster began. Georgia...