Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the 1850s, this ad, appearing in James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald, meant not only high adventure for the men who answered it. It also meant that famed William Walker, the first & foremost of U.S. soldiers of fortune in Latin America,* was on the march...
...When Gordon Richards broke his first big record, at England's Liverpool track 14 years ago, the news was considered important enough to be telephoned to Buckingham Palace. A mite of a man, son of a Shropshire coal miner, Jockey Richards, by riding 247 winning thoroughbreds in one season, had outdone Fred Archer's 1885 British record.* Richards' own comment hardly seemed up to the occasion. Said he: "It's been a very trying time for me and I'm very glad it's over...
Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...
...David J. Gordon, of 6943 Waterman Avenue, University City, a graduate of Clayton High School, Clayton...
Died. Harry Gordon Selfridge, 90, Wisconsin-born merchant prince who built London's largest department store; of pneumonia; in London. Retiring at 46 after piling up a fortune with Chicago's Marshall Field & Co., Selfridge took a trip to London, was shocked by staid British selling methods, opened the store on Oxford Street that grew rich and famous through high-pressure advertising...