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What was in many respects the most interesting game of this year's U. S. Open Polo Championship came the first day between the robin's-egg-blue stands that run the length of International Field at the Meadow Brook Club on Long Island. Hurricanes v. Hurlingham was, in a sense, a rehearsal for the matches for the Westchester Cup, No. 1 trophy of the game, which a picked U. S. team will defend in England next June. England lost the Westchester Cup in 1921 and has been trying ineffectually to get it back ever since. Ostensibly...
...rivalry be tween young men who have been living on Long Island and vying with each other at polo ever since they were old enough to pick up the rudiments of the world's most patrician pastime. On the same afternoon that Hurlingham was losing at Meadow Brook, Old Westbury was losing at nearby Bostwick Field to Seymour Knox's Aurora, champions in 1933. Two days later, Aurora nosed out the Hurricanes 11-to-10, for a place in the final against Greentree. Greentree, Jock Whitney's team, has never won the Open but this year, ahead...
...that if polo was good enough for him to play, it was good enough for more people to watch than those who could park their cars along the boards at the dozen or so private fields where high-goal players customarily perform, or afford to buy seats at Meadow Brook. He improved Bostwick Field at Old Westbury until it became, next to Meadow Brook, the best playing surface on Long Island. He put up gigantic signs "Polo-50?" on four Long Island boulevards, built a grandstand (without boxes) to seat 3,000, had the biggest Scoreboard in the world erected...
...artists. Three months ago she gave a group of her bargains to Dartmouth College. Last week she gave most of the rest to the Museum of Modern Art. There were 181 water colors, drawings and a few paintings by 71 men and women, including Peter Blume, Alexander Brook, Charles Burchfield, André Derain, John Kane the housepainter (see above), Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso. Said the Museum's President, A. Conger Goodyear: "Next to the bequest of Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller's gift is the most important one that the Museum...
Within a few hours all the world knew what this meant: Italy was determined to carry on her "war" with Abyssinia (TIME, Dec. 24, et seq.) and would brook no interference. Benito Mussolini wanted all Italy to understand that both France and Britain were backing him to the hilt...