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Fortuitously Marcus Daly then met Dr. John H. Durston, a learned philologist who had abandoned a professorship at Syracuse University to edit the Syracuse Standard, which he quit in the heat of an editorial dispute. In his own luxurious Montana Hotel (to which an extra story had been added because "it didn't look good enough") Daly opened his checkbook and commanded Dr. Durston to build for him, there in the sprawling, brawling smelter village of Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anaconda's Ghost | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...played as follows: HARVARD. YALE. Cochrane, Farley, l.e. r.e. Eddy, Schweppe. Donald, Eaton, l.t. r.t., Chamberlain. Boal, l.g. r.g., Marshall. Jaffray, Burnett, c. c., Cutten. Burden, r.g. l.g., Brown. Haughton, r.t. l.t., Stillman. Hallowell, r.e. l.e., Hubbell. Daly, q.b. q.b., Ely. Dibblee, l.h.b. r.h.b., Dudley, Eddy. Warren, r.h.b. l.h.b., Durston. Reid, f.b. f.b., Townsend, McBride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Results of Football Games. | 12/11/1901 | See Source »

...following members of the Yale football eleven of last fall received the Yale "Y": Bass, Rodgers, Chadwick, Durston, Fincke, Van Every, Hine, Murray, Chamberlain, Murphy, Connor, Benjamin, Mills and Hinkey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1897 | See Source »

...Wednesday at Princeton the freshman elevens of Yale and Princeton met, and the latter won, 14 to 4. Princeton had a great advantage over Yale in the punting of Wheeler, the 'varsity back, and Hillebrand, Edwards, Poe and Booth of the 'varsity squad also played for Princeton. Sutphin and Durston of the Yale 'varsity played for Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton 1900, 14; Yale 1900, 4. | 11/27/1896 | See Source »

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