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...Housemaster" is a gentle brew of sentiment and humor, and the latter ingredient is racy enough to make the play wholly charming. Ian Hay, the author, gives more or less of an autobiography, since he too has been a master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney caused gleeful nodding of heads when three of her beautiful greys won the Amory L. Haskell Trophy (for teams of three hunters) and her team of two bays and a brown placed second...
Equipoise went on to become one of the greatest thoroughbreds of all time and the second largest money-winner in history. Four years in a row C. V. Whitney - called "Sonny" in sports headlines to distinguish him from his equally horsy first cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney - won more prize money than any other owner in the country. But maintaining a racing establishment is expensive business. In 1926, when Trainer Jimmy Rowe was complimented on a $407,139 Whitney season, Rowe said: "Yes, Mr. Whitney had a pretty good year. I don't think his stable cost him more...
...Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew
...average American, asked who John Jay Chapman was, might emerge from a mental merry-go-round of Roy Chapman Andrews, John Hay, Gerald Chapman and John Hays Hammond with the guess that he was anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from...