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Many people witnessed the Derby ? 75,000 to be approximate. Among them were Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who used to be a jockey; Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, who presented Mr. Whitney with a golden cup; Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who is sel dom absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Near Louisville | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...program included one of the sel- dom-heard English suites, selections from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue. There was even jollity in Mr. Samuel's rendition of the saraband of the English Suite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Koussevitsky Triumphant | 10/27/1924 | See Source »

...climax, where naturally it must be inadequate. "The Necklace of Death," by Mr. Skinner, is a good Indian yarn by one who knows the Indians; yet his properties get him into trouble in the middle of the narrative. The verse shows as usual craftsmanship, and occasionally makes music, but sel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monthly Reviewed by Dr. Webster | 6/4/1912 | See Source »

Foster l. e. Rosa, Rus sel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard vs. Amherst Today. | 10/29/1892 | See Source »

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