Word: denver
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Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
Notorious throughout the land last fortnight was Denver M. Wright, the man who wanted to hunt lions in Missouri (TIME, Oct. 17). Unknown to readers of the story in the newspapers were two Missouri newshawks whose rivalry was to reduce the episode from the bizarre to the ridiculous...
Into the Ozark foothills in a truck went Denver M. Wright one day last week. With him. beside the two young lions he had bought from a circus for $75, were two friends, a barber and a plumber. Somewhere in the hills were his two sons, lost. Behind him, horrified, was the St. Louis suburb of Brentwood, where he had long been respected as a manufacturer and a member of the school board. All around him was hostility. In Mississippi County waited a sheriff with an insanity warrant. In Cape Girardeau County waited 800 vigilantes determined that he should hunt...
Southeast Missouri has many wild acres, but no one therein has ever encountered a lion. To Denver M. Wright, big game hunter, member of the St. Louis school board and onetime police commissioner of the suburb of Brentwood, this suggested something. Last week from a stranded circus he bought two lionesses. One night this week he intended to release them on a 26,000-acre forest near the Tennessee border. Next morning with two airedales and six hounds he expected to hunt the lionesses to their death. Said he: ''You can't hunt big game in Missouri...
Died. Harry C. James. 64. sportsman, naturalist, vice president of Denver National Bank, "Denver's most popular citizen"; near Morrison, Colo...