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...goes, so far as the Chicago bureau is concerned. It was the need for this kind of local-national coverage that moved TIME to open its first out-of-town news bureau -in Chicago - 17 years ago. Now, under Bureau Chief Penrose Scull, it is a funnel for the news of the U.S.'s second largest city and the great slice of the Midwest stretching out from it. By virtue of being there, Chicago bureaumen, working closely with TIME correspondents in major cities within their area, can be expected to supply
...yesterday's wherry event started out with four men. In addition to Judkins and Turner, there were Fred Hafka of Leverett House and Jon Cavarnos, unattached. But when the four closely-bunched wherries had traveled half the distance, an un-identified half the distance, an un-identified single scull with a middle-aged oarsman at the sweeps joined the race and rowed easily in his trim craft beside the leading, but more clumsy wherry...
...Brien's former flat on the ground floor of Claverly House has held numerous trophies of his athletic accomplishments. At 105 pounds, he won the New England Amateur Boxing Championship in 1891 and 1892. In 1901 he added to his laurels three first place cups in single scull races. Two years ago, he placed second in a veteran's single scull race on the Schuylkill at Philadelphia. Had he been able to take his own specially constructed light boat, and had the winner been over 40, O'Brien feels sure he would have...
...ambled down to the Weld boathouse, wondering whether he should try a scull or start out with the newcomers in a wherry. He had never rowed in a scull. The boathouse was jammed with white-shirted individuals. "Maybe they're having races today," thought Vag, as he approached the young official. "I'd like to get a boat for an hour or so may be I'd better try a wherry to start with." "I'll put you on the list," said the man with the clipboard, "but we're sort of crowded." "How long?" "Well...
...Utmost. Back in England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost...