Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...
...university "would sooner shut down than allow a union shop" said William Ford, chairman of the Yale News, by telephone last night. Unless Mooney is successful in mediating between Yale officials and the university this morning, the strike may develop into a marathon to see which faction can hold out longer...
Representing the Crimson in the annual four mile marathon will be Captain Key Rogers, Bill Palson, Bob Jay, Tim Coggeshall, Fred Phinney, Bob Houghton, Don McCaul, John Sopka and Tom McEllligott...
Here in Cambridge, the Germanic Museum Concerts are getting under way next Monday night with an organ recital by E. Power Biggs, of the Six Trio Sonatas of J. S. Bach and the F major Toccata. This is a marathon concert in any man's language, as the Trio Sonatas are generally conceded to be the most formidable things in the organ repertoire, and whether Biggs, who has never sparkled on Bach, will do them justice, is a question. But the wonderful music in the Sonatas and the fact that there is no adequate recording of them definitely warrants...
Having already cleared Aluminum Co. of America of maintaining an illegal monopoly (TIME, Oct. 13), Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week wiped Alcoa's slate clean of the other Government charges of conspiracy and miscellaneous misconduct. With his marathon ad lib decision completed-it took him ten days to dictate it in open court, covered 680 pages -the longest (April 1937 to last week) lawsuit in U.S. history was over. The 72-year-old judge swiftly left Manhattan for a six-week vacation in Maine...