Word: equestrianism
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Married. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 20, retired world tennis queen (Australia, France, England and U.S. championships in 1953) turned sports columnist (for the San Diego Union); and Norman A. Brinker, 24, San Diego State College sophomore and member of the U.S. Olympic equestrian team (1952); in San Diego...
...years the Institute doled out Ferguson's fund to adorn Chicago with a dozen statues, among them symbolic figures representing The Republic, Equestrian Indians and the most famous, Carl Milles's Fountain of the Tritons, next to the Art Institute itself. By the early '30s, city planners had begun losing their enthusiasm for heroic busts and bronzes, and the Art Institute took the precaution of getting a court to rule that "monuments" in the context of Ferguson's bequest could also mean "buildings." This year the Art Institute leaned on the old court ruling and announced...
...German victory was remarkable because World War II scattered or destroyed most German horses. But under Dr. Gustav Rau, 74, trainer of every German equestrian Olympic team since 1912, West Germany established a 30,000 member riding association. West German breeders and trainers worked patiently with whatever material they could find, achieved miracles with gentle handling. (Says Dr. Rau about Germany's Mexican rivals: "They use wires and poles to make them lift their legs. The horses learn, jä, but through fear.") Said Winner Winkler to an American newsman last week: "You have wonderful horses...
...your equestrian cover: May I be one of the thousands who will ask how many times animals have graced the cover of TIME...
...Fire Chief." Kin to ten dukes, a marshal of France and one of Lafayette's officers, De Castries joined the French army as a private (1921), got his commission at cavalry officers' school, kept in trim between the wars by riding on the French international equestrian team (he once held the world record for the mounted broad and high jump). Early in World War II, De Castries was badly wounded and captured while trying to lead 60 men through an encircling German battalion. He failed in three escape attempts, made it on his fourth and rejoined the French...