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Vogel seems like a hure thing to represent this country at London next summer in the marathon. He'll run the mile against Captain Frank Gurley tomorrow. Palmieri, who is gunning for a 440-yard hurdles berth on the Olympic team, will meet Dave Hamblett and Jim Wheeler of the Crimson in the 600. "This should be a very interesting race," Coach Mikkola predicted yesterday...
...Yorker, which pokes fun at other people's marathon sentences in its "Nonstop Sentence Derby," got a new entry from its own stable: New Yorker Book Critic Edmund Wilson. Reviewing The Times of Melville and Whitman, Wilson began a sentence: "The fluent presentation of all this-." By the time he came to rest on a period, Wilson had used 384 words, 61 lines of type, five sets of quotation marks and 26 commas...
...night last week, reams of copy piled up alarmingly in the composing room of Marshall Field's tabloid Chicago Sun. Deadlines came & went, but the battery of Linotypes stood silent. The printers were holding a marathon "chapel meeting," and the union was in no rush to adjourn. When the Sun went to press, nine hours late, it was in makeshift dress: lacking type, it ran pages of photo-engraved typewriting...
Novello is the author of 22 plays (of which only two have been flops). His triumphant Dancing Years is still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep...
...midnight drew near, crowds jammed the Senate galleries like spectators at a dance marathon. The House had finished its work with a comfortable margin; its members were lustily singing barbershop chords and happily contemplating a five-month vacation...