Word: ascots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plump little man who favors stiff collars and ascot ties, he used to say of his pink, shiny face: "I look like Mr. Pickwick." He still meets Monday nights for a learned chat with Harvard's Society of Fellows, invites friends to his apartment for coffee and conversation. Most of them agree at least one-third with Gertrude Stein, who once wrote: "Only three times in my life have I met a genius and each time a bell rang within me. . . . The three geniuses [are] Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso and Alfred Whitehead...
...shaking empire. It was of more immediate interest that seven lean years had slashed the average weight of the Oxford crew from 180 to 154 Ibs., forced it to order the lightest shell ever for the historic race with Cambridge (see SPORT). King George VI decreed that Ascot, once the world's swankest racing meet (grey toppers, lobster and champagne) would be held "strictly on austerity lines" (sack suits and sandwiches...
Died. Steve Donoghue, 60, tiny, socially sought-after British jockey who rode six Derby winners in his 30-year career, won the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Ascot six times in succession; of a heart attack; in London. He once declined the post of royal jockey to the late King George V with a frank explanation: the royal string was not quite up to his standard...
...always be a hick. He still gets a small-towner's thrill out of going to a New York nightclub and spotting famous people." Yet Harry Hopkins is certainly as sophisticated a hick as ever came down the road: the hayseed on him has charmed more notables than an ascot tie ever would have...
Died. John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...