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Abilene, near the end of the line on the Kansas Pacific, was a particularly lively spot, for it was also the terminus of the long overland trail from Texas-the Chisholm Trail, named for the half-breed Cherokee trader who marked it out, Jesse Chisholm. It was in Abilene, moreover, that Wild Bill Hickok, the famed scout and gunfighter, roamed the main street as town marshal with a pair of pistols and a sawed-off shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old West Panorama | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...hitting his elderly aunt over the head with a bottle when she attempted to intercede in an argument he was having with a girl friend, Christopher J. Chisholm, Jr., 1, of Massachusetts ave., Cambridge, was sentenced to six months in jail today by Judge Edward J. Voke in Middlesex Superior Court. from the Boston Evening American, January...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/11/1951 | See Source »

With Mello out, the Jumbos' Charlie Chisholm took the pole vault with Harvard's Bob Lown second. Dick Barwise set a new Cousens Gym high jump record of 6 feet, 2 7/8 inches, and Jerry Kanter put the shot 46 feet, 1 7/8 inches, with Bob Ray third. John Packard, Judy, Cairns, and John Little romped in the two-mile relay and Bill Geick turned in a good 22-feet, 6 1/4 inch leap to win the broad jump. Jim Downey and Joe Rosen were second and third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, '54 Track Teams Win Easily in Tufts Meet | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...Williamsburg. She was designed by three of the best shipbuilders this country ever produced: John Burkhardt and James Hunter of the Bethlehem Ship Building Co., and William S. Newell of the Bath Iron Works [he built her]. She came out as the Aras and [her original owner, Hugh Chisholm] took her around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 24, 1950 | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm, WHO's director general, has no notion that his organization can ever become a worldwide health department. Instead, he would like it to set a good example. (In Greece it did an outstanding job of malaria control, and the example inspired scores of Greeks to take training in malariology.) Every day WHO headquarters in Geneva sends out word of outbreaks of the five "treaty diseases" (plague, cholera, typhus, smallpox and yellow fever) against which quarantine officials must be alert. This work is more than ever important now that air travelers can spread a plague halfway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The World's Health | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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