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...Nicolas Dumont of New York's Scarsdale High School won the extemporaneous speaking competition. Dumont gave a speech on the topic of the role of France among world powers...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Harvard Holds Debate Tourney | 2/18/1997 | See Source »

...hand, a financial coup, bringing a league that got $75,000 from Dumont television for its title game only in 1951 into one of the wealthiest sports entities in the world. The current television contract, for which Rozelle set the groundwork, gets $1.58 billion for four years from Fox alone, more than 2,000 times what Rozelle got in his first contract with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former NFL Head Pete Rozelle Dies of Cancer | 12/7/1996 | See Source »

MATTHEW FIELDER, 16; DUMONT, N.J.; computer consultant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...gold. Peppermint lampposts line walkways that are guarded by nine stone elephants, among the very few decorative items on the property that are not fiberglass. The sculptors made sure the trunks swooped upward, an Indian sign for good luck. "We're striving for authenticity," explains architect Francis Xavier Dumont, 34, "where guests will feel like they're visiting a land far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Candymaker Went Mad | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...center of it all is the 120,000-sq.-ft. casino, a space as defiant of convention as it is of taste. Dumont has spurned the dark burgundies and jangling reds of most gambling halls in favor of a color scheme heavy on violet, turquoise, melon and, of course, bubble-gum pink. As reflected in the mirrored, barrel-vaulted ceilings, the honeycombed carpets seem to vibrate. Twenty-four hand-carved Austrian-crystal chandeliers (at $250,000 apiece) dangle in the vaults like melting diamond slush, creating the impression that at any minute one of the sparkling crystals might drip down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: A Candymaker Went Mad | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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