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...billion-dollar water project would have turned Cheesman Canyon into a vast man-made lake, covering an area between two forks of the South Platte River known to outdoorsmen as the "St. Peter's Basilica of trout fishing." The EPA decided to block the dam because it would destroy a valuable wildlife and recreational area. Colorado officials condemned the decision as "shortsighted." But biologist Carse Pustmueller of the National Audubon Society applauded the move. "The project is absolutely not viable under the Clean Water Act," said Pustmueller. "This whole Two Forks saga has educated everybody that water is finite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colorado: Score One For the Trout | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...public. There is a reason for this public ignorance. Dodge admits "a congenital dislike to talk about myself. I have a horror of people who make a long putt on Sunday and talk about it for the next two weeks." Mom Knew Best. The first-born of Joseph Cheesman Dodge, a poster artist, and his piano-playing wife Gertrude was brought up in an eight-room house on Detroit's middle-class Kirby Street. Life was pleasant and easygoing. In the evenings Joe and his brother and sister liked to gather around their mother's piano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD TRADE: Man with a Puzzle | 1/24/1955 | See Source »

...John Cheesman Harkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Class Elections | 3/15/1938 | See Source »

James Fletcher Chace, John Roberts Clark, John Cheesman Harkness, Ernest Downing Haseltine, Jr., Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr., Elliott Burris Knowlton, David Reed Lit, George Frederick Lowman, Lawrence Eliot Marcus, James Stewart Munroe, Joseph Francis Nee, Edward Holyoke Osgood, Jr., Ralph Linder Pope, Jr., Timothy James Reardon, Jr., Robert Taft Whitman, and Gibson Winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 36 Men Receive Nominations for Second 1938 Election Next Week | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Longtime President Cheesman Abiah Herrick went to Girard in 1910 with the gospel of progressive education, liberalized the rich orphanage along its present lines. Nowadays, when Girard boys graduate, most have learned a trade, go straight to work. And some go to the top of their professions; e. g., President William H. Kingsley of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., President John Albert Brown of Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., famed Landscape Architect John Nolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College for Orphans | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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