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When they rode out on Onwentsia's close-cropped field, Raymond Guest was still in the East's lineup, but in Michael Phipps's stead was a burly, baldish fellow with a fringe of red hair and a bright red helmet. This Was another scion of one of the East's great socialite polo families, Earle A. S. ("Young Earle") Hopping, 199 lb., a cool, rough-riding player who helped beat Argentina in 1928. He went in at No. 2 while Hitchcock moved to No. 3, Winston Guest...
...right leg, giving him a slight brain concussion. Play was stopped for 20 minutes, but Hitchcock insisted on going back. Shaken and aching, he rode automatically with an old campaigner's alert abandon, helped account for all three of the East's first chukker goals. Then red-helmeted Hopping slammed his pony unchecked into rangy Boeseke, rolled him to the ground and his pony over him. With a twisted right ankle, Boeseke played on. A foul was called and the West scored its first goal. For five periods the West kept within striking distance. But formidable Rube Williams...
...reception by the Army band at the Union Station. The bowlegged little Prince with curly whiskers first called at the White House wearing a two-foot shako of lion's mane. A large crowd awaiting General Italo Balbo cheered him by mistake. Day later, wearing a pith helmet, he returned to lunch with the President. His soft Amharic had to be interpreted. In the Blue Room before the meal he flipped open a box and drew forth as royal presents for the President two lion skins and a photograph of his father-in-law in a gold frame. (President...
Nazi police with pistols in their belts first swooped down on Germany's famed Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets), organization of World War veterans headed by Labor Minister Franz Seldte, retired soda water manufacturer. The 1,000,000 steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
Labor-Franz Seldte (Leader of Germany's "Steel Helmet" War veterans...