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Sports events did booming business. Dog tracks at Miami were crowded every night. The thoroughbreds and oleanders were in full bloom at Joe Widener's Hialeah Park where pari-mutuel betting was averaging $250,000 a day. With little more than half the Hialeah racing season completed the State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Second Blooming | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

Designed to educate girls of exceptional talent without forcing them to undergo uncongenial group requirements, Benning ton will pose no entrance examinations. Girls will be chosen on the findings of scholastic aptitude tests, examination of their school records. Especially proud are Bennington's founders of the fact that vocational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sod-Turning | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

¶ The President being busy, Mrs. Coolidge became the official White House football "fan," attended the game of the Quantico Marines v. the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, presented the President's Cup to the Marines when they won the Service Championship for the second successive year. ¶ In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

Joesting, Minnesota fullback, did his best, but it soon became evident that Benjamin Friedman of Michigan knew how to take a Joest. He took him on his back, side, flanks, and kept on running. Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth have failed this season to do what Abbiatti, a fullback from New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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