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...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...
...diminutive Isaac Burton Tigrett of Jackson, Tenn. took on the presidency of diminutive (48 miles) Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad as a sideline to his banking business. Eight years later he was a dyed-in-the-wool railroad man, head of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis...
...School scholarships totaling $1,300, for study next academic year, were awarded as follows: Matthew and Mary E. Bartlett scholarship to James P. Dixon, Jr., of Yellow Springs, Ohio; S.B. Antioch '39. Abraham A. Watson scholarship to Lytt I. Gardner, of Reidsville, N.C.; A.M. University of North Carolina '40. Isaac Sweetzer scholarship to Frank E. Trobaugh, Jr., of West Frankfort, Ill.; A.B. University of Illinois...
...Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged men to be intelligent in their piety. The Habad leader was Rabbi Schneer Zalman, first of a line which took the name Schneersohn and the title Lubavitcher Rabbi-from their home town in Smolensk Province, Russia. Joseph Isaac Schneersohn is fourth in this line...
...corners of the U. S. came together like so many well-fitting bicuspids, to celebrate a century of scientific dentistry. The dentists had good cause to show their teeth in pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world's finest. From the days when Dentist Isaac Greenwood supplied grim-lipped George Washington with a set of wooden teeth (they splintered), a set of iron teeth (port wine rusted them), and a dressy set of bone teeth, U. S. dentists have come...