Poor Widmerpool! He’s one of few dedicated runners to be found in mid-century British Literature. But not only does he have that name to contend with, he gets skewered in the very first pages of the first novel of Anthony Powell’s famed duodecalogy, Dance to the Music of Time, for being …
This was a book that turned on lots of folks in the seventies to the magic of running. The Zen of Running by Fred Rohé, first published in 1974, is totally hippie-dippy stuff in every respect, including the fuzzy fotos of blissed-out Fred and the calligraphy: Um. What? Yes, the pearls of wisdom …
A ridiculous depiction of the first modern-day Olympic marathon, Jayne Mansfield’s 1962 film offers a Hollywood bastardization of the story of the famed footrace from Marathon to Athens at the 1896 Olympics. In the role of a Greek theater star, Mansfield plays the love interest of a heavily favored runner, while falling for the underdog …
