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Dartmouth's cross-country team showed historians the form that let Daniel Boone make it safely 20 miles to Boonesboro, when it was humiliated here yesterday, 15-50. A total of eleven Harvard runners had crossed the finish line before the first Indian straggled in, three minutes and three seconds behind winner Doug Hardin...
...Lyman Wilbur, 55, of Washington. D. C., "clinician, educator, statesman"; born, Boonesboro, Iowa, degree from Cooper Medical College 1899; president...
Eight years separated the births of Dwight Locke Wilbur's boys, Curtis Dwight and Ray Lyman?eight Iowa years during which the residents of little Boonesboro could foresee that Curtis Dwight Wilbur would grow to be a tall man with large hands, feet, ears and nose. Later, as younger Ray Lyman Wilbur grew up they could see that he, too, would be the "string bean" type. It also became apparent that, despite the years separating them, there was to be fraternal rivalry between the Wilbur boys for position in the world and prestige among...
...President again turned to his list of candidates. Lo! Curtis D. Wilbur's name led all the rest. His qualifications numbered: birth at Boonesboro, Iowa, 56 years ago; an education at Annapolis Naval Academy; law practice in California starting at the age of 22; organization of the Los Angeles Juvenile Court; membership in the California Supreme court for five years...
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