Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oscar Cristi of Chile finally broke Mexico's winning streak. He finished the twisting, eleven-jump course in 37 seconds. 2.9 seconds less than Colonel Mariles' time, and copped the West Point Challenge Trophy. Two nights later, Captain Michael Tubridy, of the Irish team, picked up another first place. The Mexicans were undisturbed; they were so far ahead of the other teams that they had already taken time out for a graceful gesture...
...Chileans faulted. That left only four competitors for the trophy-all members of the Mexican team. One by one the three veteran riders started on the course, then pulled their horses up sharply for a refusal so that young Lieut. D'Harcourt would be sure to bag his first Garden trophy...
...Tokyo horse show, Crown Prince Akihito, 15, ate his first...
...Madrid, Surrealist Salvador Dali put on his own version of Don Juan Tenorio, Spain's traditional All Souls' Day show. "I am too much of a Spaniard and a necrophile," he said cheerfully, "to miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely...
George Bernard Shaw's Buoyant Billions, his first new play in almost a decade, closed in London after a five-week run-the shortest a new Shaw play has ever had in the West End. "Well," he shrugged, "I shall lose no sleep over it." To an inquiring newsman who ventured to hope that 93-year-old Shaw was well, G.B.S. snapped: "At my age, young man, you are either well or dead...