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Pawson got a cramp, walked for two miles, sighed and stopped. Henigan dropped out after 17 mi. and rode the rest of the route in an automobile. For 10 mi., over the long Newton hills, Kelley and Komonen held their lead together, Kelley gaining a few steps as they plodded up, Komonen gaining a few as they coasted down the other side. At Boston College Komonen pulled ahead. He had trained for the race by running 15 mi. a day on snowshoes. At Coolidge Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between...
...When the Olympic games were revived in 1896, a marathon race was included in the program. Most famed of modern races was that from Windsor Castle to Shepherd's Bush in the 1908 Olympics. The distance of the London run, some 4 mi. longer than the original, has been made standard...
...would at Wilbur Glenn Voliva's dire prophecies and belief that the earth is soup-plate shaped. But it could not dispute the grim, lap-jowled prophet's absolute mastery of his own tight sectarian world of Zion City, Ill., on the lake shore 40 mi. north of Chicago. Owner of its communal industries and General Overseer of its Christian Catholic Church, Prophet Voliva banned tobacco, liquor, cinemas, profanity, immodest dress and chewing gum from his realm and ruled its 6,000 inhabitants body & soul...
...Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights on the wing of his plane. He made an astonishing flight of 28 mi. offshore to Catalina Island. He took up Mary Pickford for her first flight, turned down cinema contracts...
...nobbily dressed bachelor with a flair for plaid suits, Glenn Martin lives in Washington with his mother. He also has living quarters at the plant 45 mi. away where he often stays days at a time. From his company he receives a modest salary of $16,200 per year...