Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hatmaker Hoyt was in a sulky instead of a saddle strictly by accident. Several years ago, he bought a saddlehorse named Louis Cobb, which had been a trotter. Just for the fun of it, he decided to put him back in a sulky. After four victories, Driver Harrison Hoyt was...
Died. Jack ("Pop") Cooper, 68, wiry, white-thatched speedboat racer, two-time vinner of the U.S. National Sweepstakes Regatta (1937-40), onetime holder of every speed record for 225-cu.-in. hydroplanes; of injuries in a racing accident; in Syracuse, N.Y.
Like most midget men, Schindler does not agree that the crowd's lust for blood is the basis of the sport's popularity. In fact, attendance has been known to drop after a fatal accident. Critics of the sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast...
Died. General Joseph Edouard Dou-menc, 67, who organized the French army's transport system in World War I, headed the ill-fated French military mission to Moscow just before the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939, took charge of the demobilization of 5,000,000 troops when France fell...
Fortune's Smile. Pershing entered the Army almost by accident. The son of a section foreman from Laclede, Mo., he hoped to become a lawyer, entered West Point only to get a free education. He talked of leaving because promotion was slow. At 40, after service in Indian battles...