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Into North Tarrytown, N.Y. at the tiller of his 1902 Anderson electric, rolled John D. Rockefeller Jr., to dedicate 17th-Century Phillipse Manor House as a colonial memorial (he gave $300,000 for its reconstruction). Next to him sat Mrs. Rockefeller; following in a buckboard were Daughter-in-law Mrs. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller and three of her five. The procession wound up with matched Percherons drawing three wagonloads of Pocantico Hills residents. Said Restorer Rockefeller: "To me this has . . . been ... a labor of love ... in the interest of my neighbors and friends in the Tarrytowns, among whom I have lived...
Penn moved smoothly in the first 20 minutes, and picked up a 13-point lead in methodical fashion. With Sophomore Chink Crossin, fleet as a deer, netting 11 points, and a Crimson offense non-existent, the Quakers had little trouble in staying ahead. They controlled all the buckboard play. For Harvard, only Jack Torgan, who couldn't seem to miss, was able to find...
Horse. In Redmond, Ore., Mechanic Roy Shelton and his small son whisked down the highway in a vintage buckboard behind the most remarkable horse since Pegasus (see cut). It averaged 15 miles an hour, and a gallon of gas was feed enough for a day. Though he never had to shoe his horse, Inventor Shelton confessed it was occasionally necessary to change a tire...
Rest Day. At Banff for one day King George and Queen Elizabeth could relax. Dressed in sports clothes they drove about, peeked at peaks, climbed a small mountain, photographed a deer and a cub bear, took a ride in an old-fashioned buckboard, dined on fresh trout caught by Lord-in-Waiting Lord Eldon, and chatted with correspondents in the evening...