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Finally, the dime novel appeared with sterling characters of the Deadwood Dick and Buffalo Bill variety. This was the literature that percolated down to the masses and stimulated the young man to follow the setting sun through the Cumberland gap to the west...
Other chair movings: CJ Gordon Gray, 40, tobacco heir and Winston-Salem, N.C. newspaper publisher, left his job as Secretary of the Army but agreed to stay on in Washington until September, as a special presidential assistant to study the dollar gap, before taking up his new job as president of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. ¶ Budget Director Frank Pace Jr., the youngest (37) high official in the capital, was moved over to the Pentagon to replace Gray as Army Secretary. An independently wealthy Arkansan, graduate of Princeton and Harvard, Pace likes working for the Government...
...then the two were out in front all alone, Brawner making up the gap in inch-long takes. Thirty yards from the finish, Brawner caught his rival; as they hit the final turn Brawner had a finger-length edge. Verdeur had nothing left to match his rival's closing drive, lost by four feet. The time was 2:14.3-four-tenths of a second under the official world's record, but not close to Brawner's best time (2:13.1) of the year...
Every Radcliffe graduate who wished employment has a job, the report showed, but most girls looked on work as a stop-gap...
...other entries in the meet are Montana State, Nevada, Western State, Dartmouth, Washington University, Colorado, and Washington State. Willy Sebaeffler, Denver coach, said the purpose of the meet is to bring together college ski teams from all winter sports sections to "fill the gap until such time" as the NCAA schedules a true national title event...