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Alfred M. Landon, 58, an old hand at coming a cropper, nursed a broken toe after too much horsing around for one day. Alf was out for a canter along the railroad tracks north of Topeka when a train came around the bend. The rider reined in, and his horse started up an embankment, then fell back on the Landon toe. The train roared...
Edward Napoleon Claughton has another Napoleonic railroad plan. Claughton, holder of one of the largest single blocks of stock in the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. ("Katy"), came a cropper with his first plan to control Katy's board of directors (TIME, April 23). He lost out to Katy President Matthew Scott Sloan,* who died a month later. Into his job went a friend of Claughton's, softspoken, malleable Raymond John ("Mike") Morfa, onetime assistant to Allegheny Corp.'s Robert Ralph Young...
Princess Elizabeth, niece of the Duke of Windsor whose equestrian mishaps were stock gag fodder in the '20s, came a cropper herself on the Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland, got some nasty leg bruises when her horse threw her against a tree...
Grand Central's stardusted ceiling has always been a focal point for both esthetic and astrological controversy. On at least one point-placement of Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...
...Philip Evergood's Rubber Raft, a war footnote in which two helpless, parched men sprawl on a raft surrounded by voracious sharks; Atlantic Pastorale, a surrealist ballet-in-seaweed by Leon Kelly; Darrel Austin's spellbinding half-dream of a mountain lion, The Great Beast; William Cropper's satirical Art Patrons...