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...Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...
...There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda, and to the fact that he was "neither a liar nor an evildoer, neither I nor any of my family...
...have studied your issue of June 14 from cover to cover, and nowhere do I find your weekly report of Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr's marathon prescription for the elimination of sin and wrong-thinking. You have so accustomed us to this treatment, week in & week out, that no longer can we find peace without our regular dosage...
...famed Boston Marathon, run last week, was supposed to be the final Olympic tryout for 129 U.S. marathoners. But the man who won the 26-mi. 385-yd., up-&-downhill race was Gerry Cote, a 34-year-old policeman from St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. To celebrate his fourth B.A.A. triumph, jaunty Gerry gulped a bottle of beer and lit up a fat stogie. The Olympic marathon committee picked its three-man U.S. team from marathoners who had finished from 250 yards to 350 yards behind Canada's Cote...
...doxtrose-filed Freshman plodded his way through 26 miles of concrete roads and woodland paths yesterday in the annual Boston Marathon. He is Lawrence R. Zeitlin '51, who entered the race "just to ace if I could...