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DE€EMBER, 1959
No. 48
slxtoen out of tweuty starters coEpleteil the Peacock aratholl," also knom as iHardrd€yrs Deach t1arch,"Ed " coverlng the 16 -lfes f!'om Lo!Jsv1116 !o Shepherdsvtlle, ry., in I hr,, 55 mln. Flr6t across Lhe lire qos Brls. C€r. Dillnan A. Pash 5z-year-old -\-pre6ldenL of Lhe Lou'svlll. chanber of Cormerce, The partlclpaniE alternstely walked and ran the entlre dlEtance iogether, lrlth occasLonal stops to have nurses check thetr h€artbeat8; two ex-dlstanoe rumers (Dr. Cleves Bichardson and. Dr. Ilerman Strull) supeivised. The race qa6 organlzeil by noted dlstance hlker Howard Hardaway, 61-year-old Loutsvlltlan who 1s rrso_toueh bls shadow has muEc1e6,,t accordtng to the CourlerThe maPathon. sponsor.d by Fhe Bull1lt ^oury ot c, 4as a denonEfratlon o" physlcal fltness. Esch entrart Eope d number on h1s chpsf shoulne h:s ace. -ha nrb6-s rsnelng fron a .o 51. The "race.' was i- honor of a piore-r, Ed ?-a;ock, who 55 y-ars qgo. or a bet, covered the 1n 2 hou-s, 5l mlnutes. \o attenoL was made to -qual hls Lia-i t"e partt^:panL€ sere honored at a d'nner. €nd soud-e danco arLersa"ds at shepherdsv1L1e hlEh school. Here at the €ide of Southern Hlgh School, 19 of the 20 Etartsrs llned up tor thelr plcture, Slxteen survlvors croBsed the rallroad-track flnlsh tlle ln Buultt Couty, Eoward Hariiaway, organlzer of the physlcal-fltness denonst.ration 1s second from rlght.