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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said John Nixon, the trainer of this spry little filly, five times trainer of a horse that has won the King's Plate: "I always knew Troutlet was game as a pebble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Guineas | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

Taxi, Taxi (Marion Nixon). Director Melville Brown's first production, Her Big Night, was so successfully and hilariously funny that the stupidity of this, his second effort, is acutely painful. The comedy is supposed to flow from the well-intentioned blunder of a hero so nitwitful that he pays $300 for a broken-down taxi on a rainy night. Marion Nixon is cute, opposite Edward Everett Horton, lummox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...boys had heard nothing, even the assistant headmaster was amazed, when Headmaster Mather Almon Abbott of famed Lawrenceville (N. J.) School, was reported by President John Nixon of the Board of Trustees, to have resigned. The Rev. Mr. Nixon assigned as cause Dr. Abbott's disapproval of a four-year-old policy of medical supervision. He also mentioned "a very flattering offer . . . made Dr. Abbott by another school with strong financial backing." Dr. Abbott only said: "I love this place. ... I dare say nothing. I have no money." There was an air of mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mystery | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...SCOTT NIXON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 1926 | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

Will religion become superfiuous in the present day practical business life? This will be one of the questions answered by Professor Thomas Nixon Carter, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, in a lecture on "Religion, Its Basis in Economic Fact," which he will deliver at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carver Speaks at Brooks House | 10/31/1925 | See Source »

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