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Jefferson Davis Dickson, 36, was left in Paris by the American Expeditionary Force, so he began promoting prizefights in a small way. He discovered Primo Camera, became a millionaire (in francs), is now impresario of the big Palais des Sports, the Tex Rickard of Paris. Last week he also had several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lion Hunt | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...summary: YALE HARVARD Nikkel, Dickson, l.f. r.f., Holland, Schrocder Saner, Larsen, Bender, McGowan, r.f. l.f., Baskervill, Pattison, Matursevitch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM EDGED BY YALE'S CLOSING RALLY | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

...University of Chicago; Professor Alexander Reid Gordon of the University of St. Andrews: Professor Theophile J. Meek of the University of Toronto; Professor Leroy Waterman of the University of Michigan; Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed (New Testament) of Chicago. Printed at University of Chicago Press ($3.50). * John A. Dickson Publishing Co., Chicago: $7.75 to $18.75, depending upon format...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Bibles | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...summary: ANDOVER SECONDS WINTHROP Simmons, l.e. r.e., Daley, Swarts Fry, Ley, l.t. r.t., Knowles Dean, l.g. r.g., Gorman, Dickson Dwyer, Johnson, c. c., McCabe Sears, r.g. l.g., Futcher Peterson, r.t. l.t., Dunton Sophian, r.e. l.e., Taylor Bates, q.b. q.b., Wightman, Henderson Jonston, Harper, l.h.b. r.h.b., Clapp Off, r.h.b. l.h.b., Downes Miller, f.b. f.b., Ripley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANDOVER BEATS WINTHROP HOUSE | 10/29/1931 | See Source »

Died. Dr. John William Dickson, 68, president of Upper Iowa University; of heart disease; in Fayette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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