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- <title>
- Oct. 24, 1994: Died:Fred Lebow
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Oct. 24, 1994 Boom for Whom?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 26
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- <p> DIED. FRED LEBOW, 62, marathon organizer; of brain cancer; in
- New York City. The New York City Marathon started in 1970 as
- four desultory circumnavigations of Central Park. Twenty-five
- years later it is the premier event of its kind, boasting the
- greatest long-distance runners on the planet. What happened
- in the intervening 2 1/2 decades? An irresistible force named
- Fred Lebow. Born Fischl Lebowitz into a Romanian-Jewish family
- subsequently ravaged by the Holocaust, Lebow came to America
- in the '60s, finding his first career in Manhattan's garment
- district. Bitten by the running bug, he financed the first race
- with his own $300, beginning a nonstop devotion to the marathon.
- He built the New York competition into something of a celebration
- of the city's own sprawling vitality. New Yorkers in turn celebrated
- Fred Lebow, at no time more poignantly than when he ran the
- marathon himself in 1992 while battling cancer.
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- </body>
- </article>
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