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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner in history, with $316,270. Lord Boswell ran out of the money, in fifth place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All Three | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...fought as a Confederate cavalry officer with General John H. Morgan's Raiders, died when he was only three, victim of the great yellow fever epidemic of 1878. His mother, daughter of a once wealthy North Carolina family, and a woman who had been educated in a select Philadelphia female academy, raised her brood of three children alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Ring-Tailed Tooter | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Interviews will last approximately ten minutes, and the Committee plans to select the delegate either Wednesday night or very soon thereafter. Although no formal "briefing" for the individual chosen is planned, shipboard discussions and a New York meeting for the American group before the conference will trace the background and main purpose of the convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Selection Committee For Prague Delegate Cuts Down Field to 8 | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

...name of Herbert N. Raab '47 was added yesterday to the special committee of four students and one faculty member whose responsibility it will be to select the delegate. Robert Watson '37, associate dean of the College, who represents the faculty, and Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44, who will act as chairman, were designated last Tuesday along with members John C. Harper '46 and John C. L. Hulley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vote Reveals 6-1 Majority Behind Prague Delegate | 5/18/1946 | See Source »

Announcing the appointment of Dan H. Fenn, Jr. '44 as chairman of the committee which will finally select the delegate from among student applications, the Council declined to give out the names of the remaining members until the role of the committee could be clarified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prague Delegate To Be Voted On | 5/14/1946 | See Source »

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