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Dorothy Horns ran for Quincy and finished 122nd out of 125 participants. "Even though the girls weren't in shape, we had fun and helped the team morale," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy Beats Eliot to Win House Cross Country Title | 10/23/1970 | See Source »

...matter. Mass TV exposure and dubbed-in accompaniment lifted their first recording-Last Train to Clarksville, an innocuous ditty dashed off by a team of songwriters during a 20-minute coffee break-to the top of the charts. Their second album, More of the Monkees, has now moved from 122nd to first place in its second week on the pop tree, establishing them as the bestselling group in pop music. The unkindest record cut of all may be their new single, I'm a Believer. It is currently No. 1 in England-where the Beatles started the whole business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Evolution | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, the first popularly elected Governor of Puerto Rico, and the 122nd since Ponce de León, settled down last week to review the bills just passed by the island legislature. Don Luis liked most of the new bills, and the new budget in particular. It totaled $94 million and 46% of it was earmarked for health and education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...122nd anniversary of Brazil's independence from Portugal, Getulio Vargas made his third promise that Brazilians will some day be given a chance to vote for another President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Promise No. 3 | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Called to service on the Mexican border, he leased a hacienda, entertained generals at parties. He went to France in 1917 as a member of General Pershing's headquarters staff. Later, he was for a while lieutenant colonel of Marshall Field's outfit, the 122nd Artillery, then colonel of the 61st Artillery. Before the end of the war he was sent back to the U.S. as commandant of Fort Sheridan, near Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Soldiers | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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