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...three, running with the power of a wild buffalo and the cunning of a hounded fox, Harmon scored a touchdown. By half time he had scored another and his running mate, Paul Kromer, had crossed the goal line for a third. Then, in the first few minutes of the third quarter -by this time looking as monstrous to the Blue Boys as Willie Heston had looked to the West Virginia footballers of 1904-Terrible Tommy got loose and dashed 57 yards, with tacklers diving into thin air after him, for his third touchdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midwestern Front | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Most arresting proposal in the book (by Hunter College's Frances Morehouse) was that U. S. youngsters should get a new set of heroes. To conventional U. S. heroes, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Miss Morehouse proposed to add: Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Wright Brothers, Elias Howe, Booker T. Washington, G. W. Carver, Cyrus W. Field, Jane Addams, Dan Beard, Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Better Citizens | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Shoshone-Bannock Indians in Blackfoot, Ida. conferred tribal citizenship upon Quot-jasonah-ah ("Buffalo Horns" -better known as Clarence A. B^ottolf-sen) and Pah-zy-tse-ze-yak Kap-je-tah ("Heap Big Potato Chief"-better known as Lewis O. Barrows), the Governors of Idaho and Maine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Blond, clean-cut young Yaleman Eugene Kingman, Philbrook's director, plans to encourage local art and architecture, Indian art. Conspicuous in the opening-night crowd were the feathers and buck-kin pants of Acee Blue Eagle, whose Buffalo Hunt was also on display. Absent were Negroes. One Thursday a month will be et aside as Jim Crow day at Philbrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Philophile | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Donald C. Johnson of Buffalo, New York, and Riverside High School; Thayer Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Twelve Freshmen Selected For '43 Union Committee; Will Run Class Events, Union Activities | 11/1/1939 | See Source »

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