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...tactics at Negro colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school since the first Negro West Pointer (Henry O. Flipper) got his diploma in 1877. Graduated 35th in his class of 276 at the Military Academy, young Lieutenant Davis could not really hope to command white officers in a peacetime army, is now instructor of R. O. T. C. students at Tuskegee Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Problem | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...holes, during high wind and rain, Haverstick led the way. At lunch time he was 4 up on Brooke. When they returned for the second 18, Brooke began to creep up until he pulled even at the 27th. At the 29th, the Virginia Creeper was down again. At the 35th the match was all even once more; a 17-ft putt would put Brooke in front, with only one more hole to play. Looking heavenward in supplication, Brooke spied a rainbow arching over gloomy Mt. Equinox. "I've got a rainbow round my shoulder and I'm going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Youths at Games | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...wintry Manhattan last week went many of the millions of motorboat fans, whose summery sport has become in 35 years a $165,000,000 industry. Destination: the 35th annual National Motor Boat Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elcos, Eurekas, Etc. | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Manhattan the Screwballs of America, "a new society to protect the right to laugh," met for their first national conference in the 35th Street excavation of the unfinished Sixth Avenue subway, appointed President Roosevelt their patron saint, cabled Adolf Hitler: "If the sound of laughter is ever heard in Berlin, run for the nearest border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...characteristically American as ice-cream sodas, bathing-beauty parades and The Star-Spangled Banner, the World Series agitated many a U. S. citizen last week as the Chicago Cubs and the New York Yankees faced one another in the 35th annual four-out-of-seven game tournament that ends the U. S. baseball season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball Exit | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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