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Jockey T. Weston. For years Lord Derby has let it be known that he cherished two ambitions: 1) to be Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mud Horse | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

At Michigan City, Ind., Tom Gibbons, St. Paul heavyweight, won a popular decision from Georges Carpentier, French "orchid man," in a ten-round no-decision boxing bout. Carpentier, at 173 1/2, was 5 1/2 pounds heavier than when he lost to Dempsey three years ago. "I'm ready," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carp vs. Gibbons | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

In an ebullient chapter on the British lecturer in America, Mr. Hamilton tries to trace the origin of the myth that authors are also necessarily speakers-"but for the good natured curiosity of American audiences to see British authors in the flesh, I doubt whether a single one of us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unwritten History* | 4/14/1924 | See Source »

One of the Washington correspondents whose specialty is pen-portraiture Clinton W. Gilbert, recently wrote of Mr. Denby: "His fate is not important, for . . . nobody will believe that he intentionally did anything wrong, and nobody will believe that he is an adequate Cabinet officer." Mr. Gilbert called him "the old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Birthday Partings | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

"As soon as I saw her (this was ten years ago, by the way) I had that curious feeling that there was something of destiny in the incident. . . . Well, it didn't take me long to get an introduction. . . . For quite a while? several years?I lived in another city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curtismorphosis | 1/14/1924 | See Source »

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