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...usual four or five. "I always keep in good shape," he explained. How was he able to resist the call to the men's room? Good control, he said, vowing that he had had no auxiliary devices strapped to his leg. What was the purpose of his marathon talk? He was one of "a band of liberals" who wanted to "focus public attention" on the tidelands "giveaway," said Morse. He was obviously satisfied that his exhibition of strength and endurance had contributed to the focusing process, though the question was a major issue in the election campaign...
Keize Yamada, 25-year-old Japanese mining engineer, set a record yesterday by winning the Boston A.A. marathon in 2:18:51, six minutes, 48 seconds faster than the 1947 record set by a Korean...
...Elgin, Ill., arm-weary Frank Breen, 38, claimed four world horseshoe pitching records after a six-hour marathon with a pair of 2^-lb. shoes. The records: 1,362 ringers in 1,724 pitches; 271 points and 86 ringers in 100 consecutive throws; 28 ringers...
...turns, mad and loving, nasty and nice, happy and unhappy. She appears in chic clothes and drab ones, is sad at a gay Hollywood party, watches herself on the screen, is jailed for drunken driving, works as a saleslady in a department store. It is a marathon one-woman show and, all in all, proof that Bette Davis -with her strident voice, nervous stride, mobile hands and popping eyes - is still her own best imitator...
...member of the party's national committee; Alexander Trachtenberg and Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith Act for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court refused 7-2, to review the Baltimore convictions...