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...most interest is the manuscript of the famous sonnet, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." In it glares the poet's notorious historical error for he had set down Cortes staring at the Pacific instead of Balboa, the rightful discoverer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEATS COLLECTION EXHIBIT OPENS IN WIDENER JIBRARY | 3/25/1938 | See Source »

Last week the first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brave New World | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...York Times Balboa Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Died- Billy Papke, 50, oldtime (1907-08; 1911-13) world's middleweight boxing champion, Los Angeles saloon "greeter"; by his own hand (revolver), after shooting and killing his divorced wife Edna, 46; on Balboa Island, Calif. Against Champion Stanley Ketchel in 1907, Papke scored a twelfth-round knockout after punching his opponent's head instead of shaking his hand, as they entered the ring. Ketchel punished him severely in a return bout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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