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...South Dakota's Republican gubernatorial contest, Miss Gladys Pyle, now Secretary of State, led a field of four men by 3,000 votes. As she did not obtain the 35% of the total vote required for nomination, the choice will go to a State convention next week, where she is likely to be selected. Miss Pyle, 39, with brown curly hair, has a head full of reform ideas to be executed if she reaches the Governor's office at Pierre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...feet can run far. Last week one John Salo, plodding Passaic, N. J., policeman, reached Los Angeles, where he had pegged from Manhattan. His running had not been in vain, for he was winner of C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle's transcontinental bunion derby. In a burst of finishing speed, Runner Salo galloped 26 miles around Wrigley Field, while ten thousand Californians cheered, hooted, whistled. His cross-country time: 526 hr., 57 min., 30 sec. His winning purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bunion Derby | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...occasion yesterday to note down in his own widely syndicated style his impressions of the action of the French Lawn Tennis association in reestablishing M. Forst as an amateur. Apparently this happy outcome was reached after the offender had handed over the tainted francs not to his manager Mr. Pyle but to the Association which dictates his standing. It was a situation well adapted to the pen of the famous columnist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...follows: J. F. Enders, J. S. Jacobs '25, E. F. Porter, S. R. Mettier, L. B. Ellis '22, W. D. Sutliff, Fred Gibbs, H. H. Merritt Jr., A. B. Donovan, L. E. White, W. H. Lewis '22, G. K. Mallory '22, H. E. Gallup, E. S. Goodwin, H. P. Pyle, and Horatio Rogers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

...From New York to Los Angeles today by rail takes 3 days and 11 and ¼ hours. By bus it can be done in 5 days and 14 hours. By automobile it recently took 4 days 8 hours and 47 minutes. By foot it has been done (in the "Pyle Marathon") in 23 days 21 hours. By boat, through the Panama Canal, it can beautifully and agreeably be accomplished in about 17 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dog | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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