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SOUND COMING
This was the year of the long stroll. President Kennedy started it by quoting Teddy Roosevelt's line about fit soldiers being able to walk fifty miles in twenty hours. So, everybody
tried it....few made it.
But, one that did
was WBAP's Wayne Brown, an outdoor type who slicked off fifty miles from Fort Worth to Glen Rose in thirteen hours and fifteen minutes. It was a a great feat and the mayor and the Glen Rose high school band were there to greet Brown.