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...many years later an itinerant Brazilian claimed to have traveled the length of the river. In 1931, an American, Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, also made the trip (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931), reported what he declared were the exact coordinates of the Orinoco's source: Lat. 2° 25 min. 30 sec. North, Long. 63° 45 min. 31 sec. West. Then, in 1943, a Brazilian boundary-setting expedition claimed that it had found the source 30 miles to the west. U.S. Army flyers from British Guiana helped to confirm the location of the river's origin...
...controversy between Princeton and Dartmouth over allegedly dirty tactics used against Tiger tallback Dick Kazmaier will be discussed by the heads of the two schools next week. Presidents Harold W. Dodds of Princeton and John S. Dickey of Dartmouth plan to discuss the matter when they attend a meeting of the Rockefeller Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia...
John Sloan Dickey, President of the College, announced that the wage hikes were made possible by favorable financial results for the college year ending June...
...individual entrants was Mrs. Loula Long Combs, 70, who has taken blue ribbons at every one of her National showings since her first in 1913. Rounding the show ring in her red-wheeled phaeton, with her smartly liveried footman sitting behind her on the dickey and her docked, high-stepping horses trotting in perfect rhythm, she took the harness pairs class, celebrated her 54th year of competition by winning eight other events in the hackney horse and pony classes...
...rate, I shall continue to think the animal is a cow. I have enough trouble just keeping the radiator going in this room, without having to fight off the advances of an incestuous mural all through what promises to be a cold winter. William Hobart Dickey...