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In Colorado, Alva Blanchard Adams. Pueblo banker, onetime (1923-24) Senator, and nephew of the present Governor, nosed out John T. Barnett, wealthy Denver oilman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination, vice Senator Charles Winfield Waterman, deceased. Attorney Karl Cortlandt Schuyler of Denver easily won the Republican nomination. The Democratic primary...
A brisk wind was at their heads as the 2-year-olds thundered out of Joseph E. Widener's famed chute onto the 6¾-furlong straightaway. Though Mr. Widener built his straightaway so that there would be no crowding at the first turn, all horses learn to make...
Down from Canada 26 years ago marched a thick-wristed, heavyset golfer named George S. Lyon to make a bid for the U. S. amateur championship. He was stopped in the finals by Eben Byers, who died last spring of radium-water poisoning (TIME, April 11). That was the nearest...
Later in the evening they spied a light at sea. Burning their last films, oil and flares, they hailed the trawler Lord Talbot. At dawn the next morning she nosed in through the ice to pick them up. As they boarded the ship, they saw an iceberg slowly crush the...
McAdoodles. Mr. McAdoo helped nominate Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore in 1912. He managed that year's winning Democratic campaign. He served six years as Secretary of the Treasury. He fished for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1920, fought hard for it in 1924. But never has this versatile, long-nosed...