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Dusk was falling, and the last of the B. A. A. marathon spectators had left the Exeter Street finish line when Ed Souder, Jr. and Doug Shepardson, Adams House Seniors, dashed over the 26 mile, 385 yard stripe in a tie for 69th place and collapsed on the rubbing tables. Wearing only dripping shorts and wan smiles, the two men were a sorry sight...
Last year's Battle of Britain will go into the books as one of the most epic-if not the most decisive-in history. It was like Marathon, Tours, the Catalaunian Fields-by every human reckoning the Nazis should have won. They did not, or if they did, they did not know...
...Bushnell, ingenious Yankee inventor of the first submarine in the Revolutionary War; Simon Bolivar, great South American liberator, whose hero was George Washington. Other brightly colored features include a series on the world's warplanes in action, Lowell Thomas' "greatest adventure," the story of the original Greek Marathon run. Confident first edition was 300,000 copies...
Canada's winter sportsmen have developed amazing speed on snowshoes. They have traveled 100 yards in twelve seconds,* a mile in six minutes, five miles in 32 minutes. Highlight of every snow-shoe meet is the ten-mile marathon. In last week's ten-mile event-for the International championship-no Americans dared compete. Favorite was little Gerard Cote, 27-year-old newsdealer of St. Hyacinthe, Que. Cote, recently voted Canada's No. i athlete, weighs only 128 lb. Three years ago, he won the International snow-shoe marathon in the record-breaking time...
Four Mothers (Warner Bros.) momentarily subordinates the maternity marathon of the four luscious Lemp sisters (Rosemary, Priscilla, Lola Lane & Gale Page) to the vicissitudes of their husbands (Eddie Albert, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, Dick Foran) and music master father (Claude Rains). Husband Lynn is about to write the great American symphony. Husband Albert is about to discover a germ. But since Husband McHugh has lost all the neighbors' savings when a Florida hurricane hits his real estate, the Lemps spend most of Four Mothers paying back...