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...Negro students at Baldwin-Wallace College, Bones has been a campus celebrity for some time. Last year his fellow students raised $1,500 among themselves to set up a scholarship for his firstborn child (if & when he begins to raise a family; he is still a bachelor). Bones's fame has now spread far beyond the campus. A skinny 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he is the greatest high & low hurdler who ever wore spikes. He holds nine world records at different distances, and is the safest bet the U.S. has for the Olympic Games in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: High Stepper | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Died. Julia Etta Willkie, 57, Wendell Willkie's versatile elder sister; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bridgeport, Conn. The family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Presidential Adviser Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran used to work until 4 a.m., used to travel far & wide on the moment's spur. Grounded in Washington while his pretty wife Peggy was momentarily expecting their firstborn, he mourned: "This domesticity ruins the irregularity of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Died. Henry H. Colpus, 76, who claimed to be the firstborn (illegitimate) son of King Edward VII of England; in St. Petersburg,. Fla. His story: "My mother ... a young widow ... on her way to the Ascot races . . . was passing through Windsor Park alone when she met the young Prince [of Wales] She did not go to the races at all. He took her away. . . . My mother was a Quakeress and she felt that it was a spiritual marriage. But... he could not acknowledge her as his wife because he was the Prince of Wales. She wept and he gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...name of his firstborn, Ramfis, General Trujillo last week endowed a bed at Brooklyn'sNXursery and Infants' Hospital. Cost: $1,000. *Association for Eating Oysters in Any Month You Want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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