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Their official duties done, many of the White House's guests slipped into sleek black limousines and were shuttled across Jackson Square to Decatur House, the gas-and candlelit mansion of Mrs. Marie Oge Truxton Beale, one of the capital's omnipotent hostesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Two-Party System | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

guards: T. Truxton Hare, Pennsylvania 1900, and Pudge Heffelfinger, Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Peace & War | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Arguing for the "Commissioner of Internal Revenue" will be the Pow Wow Club, H. Truxton Emerson, Jr. and Robert G. Zeller, counsels; and for the "Brainard Corporation," Bernard Lisman and Edward Harvey Smith representing the James Club. All participants are third-year students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Clubs Argue Mock Court Cases | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

Coach Paul Sweet of New Hampshire, whose team has lost to Maine 22-34 and to Rhode Island 15-54, will enter Captain Roland Kimball, Howie Atwell, Dick Emery, John French, Earle Handley, Roy Holmes, Wayne Lorwy, Truxton Perry-Smith, Joe Pushee, and Jim Sleeper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Harriers Meet Powerful Indian, New Hampshire Teams | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

...there in 1805 that Andrew Jackson sponsored one of the greatest match races of all time: his Truxton v. Lazarus Cotton's Greyhound, with cane-shaking partisans wagering their tobacco crops, stables and plantations on the outcome. It was there in 1843 that Nashville's gentry staged the $35,000 Peyton Produce Stakes, up to that time the world's richest horse race and the forerunner of America's "Futurities" (race in which competitors, now usually two-year-olds, are nominated at birth or before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Iroquois Memorial | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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