Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorites (at 8-1) were Irish Jumper Shagreen and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Arctic Gold, his fifth Grand National entry. But at the fifth jump (a 5-ft. fence) Shagreen tumbled. Arctic Gold, who took the lead at the sixth-treacherous Becher's Brook-came a cropper two jumps later...
Cloak & dagger romance and bustles-and-bows nostalgia both have their merits-and faithful droves of customers. It is a lucky author who can straddle the two fields without coming a cropper. In Author Thomas Bertram Costain's case, a firm hand with historical fiction (The Black Rose, The Moneyman) has been no guarantee of success with the gentler, slower-moving Gay Nineties period piece...
...easy-to-read books (notably The Chequer Board, 1947, and No Highway, 1948) have established him as a middlebrow Graham Greene, an honest trader who sells his reader a story without an ideological headache in it. With his new book, however, Author Shute trifles with reportage and comes a cropper. Traveling in Sumatra in 1949, Shute was the house guest of Mr. & Mrs. J. G. Geysel-Vonck. His hostess had been one of a party of about 80 Dutch women & children taken by the Japanese at Padang in 1942 and thereafter marched round Sumatra for 2% years. Mrs. Geysel...
...acquaintance once described plump, persuasive Albert Saitz, 37, as perhaps the best shoe salesman in the U.S. But three years ago, when he was treasurer and chief operating executive of Boston's Fleetwood Athletic Shoe, Inc., Salesman Saitz came a cropper. Fleetwood, which had been financed largely by Saitz's father-in-law, went bust. Saitz insists that he got out of the company while his in-law paid off the creditors at 37½? on the dollar and borrowed more, including $35,000 on the property, from Boston's Pilgrim Trust. Eventually the company closed down...