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...husband from the base of the flagpole by a system of hoisting cords. She recalled to newsgatherers that he won the nickname "Shipwreck" after surviving the Titanic disaster (1912), then entered the U. S. Navy, and, after the War, became a steeplejack, human fly, airplane stunt performer and "marathon rooster...
...passersby, stopping to crane their necks backward at Mr. Kelly, loitered a moment longer to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly...
...thousands of U. S. clubwomen already know, Playboy Halliburton did swim the Hellespont, to catch up with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...
...approximately 25 miles, from Marathon to Athens, with news of a Greek victory over the Persians...
Clarence H. De Mar of Melrose, Mass., 38, who sets type six days and teaches Sunday School the seventh, last week jogged over 26 miles and 385 yards of warm asphalt in 2 hr. 40 min. 221/5 sec., won the annual marathon of the Boston A. A. for the fifth time...