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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calamity Jane" is the name of the putter that sank the putt that made the tie that let Jones win the tournament. "Jeanie Deans" is the name of the driver that hooked the drives that got into the trouble that made it necessary for "Calamity Jane" to work hard. The man who made "Jeanie Deans" played in the tournament. He, Jack White of Scotland, 56, was the oldest competitor. He started out to be a major sensation by scoring a par 72 in the first round, including a freak shot on the lyth. With 175 yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: National Open | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Northwestern University Jane Addams L.H.D. Frederic Campbell Woodward, Acting President of University of Chicago LL.D. Frank Joseph Loesch, criminal lawyer LL.D. William James Mayo, surgeon D.Sc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Plymouth at 8:10--"Jenny". Jane Cowl and a good cast go talky-talky, and continue far into the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

...Jane Seymour, still, pale-eyed, blank-faced, pretty. She gave him sickly Edward, his only male heir, then died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teddy Tudor | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

JEHOVAH'S DAY - Mary Borden - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50) A competent novelist, Mary Borden has set in frameworks of nice prose such swift tumultuous stories as Jane, Our Stranger and Flamingo. But none of her past work presaged the ambitious conception, the flights of rhetoric displayed in her present work, which is the story of Evolution reduced to the limits of the popular novel. Jehovah's "day," a million years in human reckoning, dawns with Eryops, fat and repulsive Mud Puppy who dragged himself from primordial slime; ends with Peregrine, fat and lovable scientist who rose to planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evolution in Parvo | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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