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That endurance refueling flights entered the category of flagpole sittings and marathon dances in laymen's minds, since monotony entered and anything valuable that might be proved about men or machinery seemed proved up to the hilt and beyond...
More wonderful for its massive tonal quality than for its artistic brilliance was the singing of the 4,000. The roof that has often reverberated with mass advice to fisticuffers, bicycle riders, marathon dancers, reverberated that night with the more melodious, even louder tones of such old-time favorites as Mendelssohn's "On Wings of Song," Bohm's "Calm as the Night," Elgar's "Land of Hope and Glory." Reinald Werrenrath soloed "Danny Deever" until tears rolled down many a cheek. Then he sang "On the Road to Mandalay," assisted in the chorus...
...novel kind of contest in this day of dance marathons and bunion derbies seems highly improbable, and yet today in Cambridge something unique in the field of competitions, a phonograph listening marathon, is to be started. Promptly at 3 o'clock two Harvard students are to take their places in the windows of the Music Box, Cambridge's tiny shop on Holyoke Street, and there begin to listen without once stopping, to all and any one of the some 5000 odd records which the Music Box has in store...
This afternoon at three o'clock, the man who invented the sour kraut eating and balogna slicing contest will find himself no longer a record holder. At that hour the most recent marathon of them all, the youngest offspring of a race long the victim of the inbreeding of defectives will commence within earshot of the Square. At present no steps to avert the holding of the Music Box endurance run are reported to have been taken by the board of health, but that may well be explained on the ground that the community physicians are interested merely...
...arts; and even in the black of night the cloistered scholar may awake to find the strains of music penetrating the former fastness of the Yard. How unbecoming then to impute motives other than the keenest interest in making sport to the promoters of the present music marathon...