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...cabin?a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize???a place on his party's 1968 presidential ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trustee for Tomorrow: Republican Jacob Javits | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...First Annual Exhibit of paintings, drawings and sculptures by U. S. Negro artists, held under the auspices of the Harmon Foundation & the race-relations committee of the Federal Council of Churches, opened in Manhattan. First prize???$400?in the Harmon Competition had been awarded to Laura Wheeler Waring, who showed, among her seven prize-winning paintings, two splendid portraits of Negro women; the one of a slick brown jane, the other of an old Negress whose face was ugly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vermeer Controversy | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...across the finish line almost neck to neck. Two of these five might have won if the race had been shorter. Two others might have won if the race had been longer. But the horse that did win was produced from behind at just the moment to capture the prize???which, after all, is exactly what the others were trying to do at that particular second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kentucky | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

...Vance of Princeton and $75 in gold from Albert H. Loeb of Chicago, to Reti for his game against Bogolju-bow, deemed the most brilliant game of them all. Loud were the patriotic plaudits that American Marshall should do so well, and to him was given the second brilliancy prize???also for a game against Bogoljubow. Bogoljubow, the so brilliantly defeated, got a prize for the best defense, in recognition of his perform-ance against Maroczy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: German Veteran | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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