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Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Sight | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Rolled Stockings (James Hall,* Louise Brooks,- Richard Arlen-). If the jubilant alumni only realized that Jim Treadway's stroking old Colfax to victory was in part the silent triumph of his brother Ralph, who dashed the cup and the bad lady from brawny Jim's lips, and told him he ought to keep training the night before the big race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1927 | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...Experience shows Utah to be unfit for statehood: Colfax and Taylor. Mor monism 11 et seq-(a) Institutions not republican, but theocratic-(b) People ignorant and in complete subjection-(c) Institutions polygamous.-(d) They sanction crime and evasion of law: Disloval teachings of Mormon Hierarhv, p. 10-(e) Opposed to Federal authority: Utah Commission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English VI. | 1/4/1893 | See Source »

...Thursday at Providence, under the auspices of the Brown University Chapter. Representatives were also present from the University of California, Asbury University of Indiana, Johns Hopkins University of Maryland and Denniston University of Ohio. The enjoyment of the evening was still further hightened by the presence of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, an enthusiastic member of the fraternity, who replied to a toast in a manner appropriate to the occasion. Other replies were made by representative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/12/1883 | See Source »

...Schuyler Colfax will deliver a lecture on "Our Martyr Presidents" at Yale March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE WORLD. | 3/22/1882 | See Source »

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