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HUNTINGTON, N.Y. -- Nina Kuscsik doesn't remember how she heard an Englishman named Roger Bannister had run a mile in less than four minutes in the spring of 1954, but she vividly recalls what she ...
Despite the gravity of all that, Nina Kuscsik, 33 at the time, is seen in the photo, smiling — and sitting. Yes, the black-and-white image depicts six women not running, not standing ...
Fifty-six years ago at the age of 14, Nina Kuscsik became obsessed with climbing up the stairs of the Empire State Building. She had seen a sign on a New York City bus advertising a bet over a ...
The women, Lynn Blackstone, Jane Muhrcke, Liz Franceschini, Pat Barrett, Nina Kuscsik and Cathy Miller, are in their late 20s and early 30s -- except for Barrett, who is 17 and terrified the ...
Before her first marathon, Nina Kuscsik’s longest training run was a 20-miler. It was cut short when the police picked her up on the Northern State Parkway. They were responding to a report of a ...
Eight finished, led by winner Nina Kuscsik. “Back in the day, we were told your uteruses would fall out, that you’d be unable to bear children, that you would not survive the event ...