Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Combined teams of Bertram and Barnard Halls piled up a total of over 1600 lengths to claim first place in the Athletic Association-sponsored intramural swimming marathon at the Annex. Cabot and Briggs Halls finished second and third respectively...
Although he is no gambling man, the Rev. Owen Barrow, 40, a slight, blue-eyed Church of England clergyman, was willing to wager $33,000 on a hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into...
Church union on a local scale seemed the only answer to Barrow's problem when he arrived in the newly built paper town in 1945. Marathon's population was nearly 80% Protestant but no single denomination was large enough to support itself. Anglican Barrow started holding services in the paper mill's cookhouse, in a vacant barn or any other sizable shelter. In two years Barrow and his Protestant congregation had built their own church...
Pastor Barrow hopes that the Marathon experiment will have a broader effect than simply justifying the investment of time and money that went into the building of his parish. He travels regularly to both the Anglican and United Church synod meetings, stressing the Holy Trinity success as proof that the long-discussed union of the United Church* and the Church of England in Canada can be made to work. "God is neither Anglican, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran nor United Church," he says. "Union ... is possible as we have it here...
...mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...