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...felt about the "dream tickets" that included his name, Lindsay quipped: "I do have bad dreams occasionally." But many Republicans were convinced that the mayor would jump at the second spot. "He has a good image now," noted a Rockefeller lieutenant, "but he knows he's sitting on a powder keg. Sooner or later, something is going to happen to make him look...
...four of Moreton's hunting friends from Cambridge reached southern Wyoming and spent six weeks shooting. By wintertime, when it was clearly too risky for any sensible man to cross the Big Horn range, the two Frewen brothers slogged through waist-high snow to the spot on the Powder River where they intended to become cattle barons...
Elephant Trap. Within three years, Frewen had married Clara Jerome, the daughter of a New York financier (her younger sister Jennie had recently married Lord Randolph Churchill). He had also regularized the shipment of champagne to the Powder River settlement, introduced white riding breeches and the English saddle to the region, made a friend of Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board...
...kill up to 800 of them each year, few would want their sport circumscribed?or destroyed?by too-stringent gun laws. Thousands of other Americans engage in such pastimes as skeet and trap shooting, muzzle-loading competitions with old-style rifles, and bench-rest shooting, whose enthusiasts weigh their powder, mold their bullets and come close to perfect marksmanship...
Despite the Crimson's rapid elimination, and its powder-puff offense which could only produce one run in two games, the answer is yes. Harvard cannot hope in the near future to field a team as strong as the tournament's best, but in losing, 2-0, to St. John's and, 2-1, to Southern Illinois the Crimson made a respectable showing; according to one veteran sports-writer, the best by a New England team in years...