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With Bobby Jones safely in the South, potent golfers played for the Western Open Championship. Walter Hagen scored an early 67, breaking the course record over the Olympia fields No. 1 course, Chicago, by 2 strokes, par by 5. Laurie Ayton of Evanston had one phenomenal nine of 32. Hagen was steadiest; with a 75 on his last round he scored 281, a fraction over even 70's for four rounds; won the title by 4 strokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Western Open | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Ready. A few days later, after midnight on May 1, seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano, Marques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...been announced by the powers behind the recent motion picture tests at Harvard which were sponsored by College Humor, and the First National Picture Corporation that the men who qualified for the tests from Harvard will have an opportunity to see the films of themselves at the University and Olympia Theatres in the near future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEST FILMS OF "MOVIE" ASPIRANTS TO BE SHOWN | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself in 1836 tolling for John Marshall, from the Liberty Bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dedication | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Lincoln Nev.-Carson City N.H.-Concord N.J.-Trenton N. Mex.-Santa Fe N.Y.-Albany N .C.-Raleigh N. Dak.-Bismarck Ohio-Columbus Okla.-Oklahoma City Ore.-Salem Pa.-Harrisburg R. I.- Providence S.C.-Columbia S.Dak.-Pierre Tenn.-Nashville Tex.-Austin Utah-Salt Lake City Vt.-Montpelier Va.-Richmond Wash.-Olympia W. Va.-Charleston Wis.-Madison Wyo.-Cheyenne

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 48 States and their capitals | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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