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...Harvard 2 2 1 3 D. Young, Pr'nt'n 4 1 1 2 Drake, Yale 3 1 1 2 Brown, Pr'nt'n 4 2 0 2 J. Sloane, Pr'nt'n 4 2 0 2 Maloon, Dartmouth 3 1 1 2 Kelley, Dartmouth 3 1 1 2 Pike, Yale 3 1 1 2 Faxon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Individual Scoring | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

...Society (of which he was then president) as a kind of enormous lion because of its eight-inch claws. Wrote he: "I cannot . .. help believing that this animal, as well as the mammoth, are still existing." When Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark up the Missouri River and Captain Zebulon Pike into the Rockies, he half-hoped they might bag a live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jefferson's Big Lion | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Memphis, Tenn.; Harold C. Passer '43, Faribault, Minn.; Donald J. Patton '42, Cortaro, Ariz.; Dick S. Payne '43, Council Bluffs, Ia.; Daniel M. Pearce '42, Ripley, Tenn.; Jack M. Peterson '42, Portland, Ore.; Alan W. Petit '41, Berkeley, Calif.; Chris G. Petrow '41, Webster City, Ia.; Norman H. Pike '42, Sioux City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $45,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN 119 UPPERCLASSMEN | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

...printed a front-page cartoon and editorial headed "Three Families Drive America to War." Promptly Michigan's Representative Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) lashed out in Congress at "this sort of propaganda played up at a time like this for purposes of political demagoguery." To Representative Woodruff SECommissioner Sumner Pike, retired oilman and onetime vice president of Wall Street's Case. Pomeroy & Co., explained: "In some way unknown to the commission, a copy of the report or the summary was obtained by a newspaper correspondent. . . . When the report had reached its final stages it was supervised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Thirteen Families | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Nashville he was greeted by the Tennessean's publisher, cyclonic, pudgy Silliman Evans. In a big, red, open, flag-stuck Buick, they roared off at 60 m.p.h. behind ear-busting police sirens down the Franklin Pike to Mr. Evans' home, a plantation once owned by Andrew Jackson's partner John Overton. There field-hands drew beer in tin cups, sweaty cooks turned roasts over barbecue pits, visitors trampled the fresh young daffodils in the meadow. Mr. Farley spoke, shook hands, praised Cordell Hull, Tennessee, the post office, went indoors to eat a vast spread of fried chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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