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Doris Duke Cromwell picked up where estranged Husband James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell left off in their double-talking divorce marathon, filed a motion in Reno's court seeking to invalidate his New Jersey invalidation of her earlier Nevada divorce (TIME, May 22). She gave him 30 days in which to answer her new double-barreled charge: Cromwell's New Jersey court claim that she perpetrated a fraud on the Nevada court was "gross fraud" on his part...
...Research. It recorded the results of a questioning of some 1,000 New Yorkers concerning their reaction to radio's part in the Third and Fourth War Bond Drives. Particularly interesting were the comments of 100 citizens specially cross-questioned about Kate Smith's 17-hour radio marathon over CBS (total pledges: $39,000,000) on Sept. 21, 1943. Those comments told a lot about the U.S. radio audience. Some of them...
...week filled with many happenings. The satchels under our collective orbs testify to that. The only bright spot was the fact that there were no Reports due, although that Accounting marathon is giving us an excellent opportunity to see the sea. The return of morning calisthenics caused a return to prayer as many prayed for rain, succeed-three out of five times...
Died. Peter Foley, 87, the 26-mile Boston Marathon's Methuselah; in Winchester, Mass. Rating his best place (twelfth) at 50, the white-and-pink-trunked gnome finished 41st in a field of 100 when he was 70, hung up his shoes at 82. He trained on long walks, short ales...
...latest sporting event which World War II has knocked out is the world's toughest outboard motorboat race: the annual May marathon down the Hudson from Albany to Manhattan (136 miles). Cause: the Eastern Seaboard's new gasoline regulations...