Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East's main problem, after Thomas Hitchcock (who has had his 10-goal handicap for 13 years) was injured in the second trial match last month, was to pick from an overabundance of able young players the four who function best together. Younger, lighter, with an aggregate handicap of 30 goals to the West's 36, East last week had only one seasoned Internationalist: Winston Guest, who had returned from a honeymoon withhis Woolworth heiress bride, Helena McCann Guest, just in time for the trial matches. Of his three teammates only one played in the East-West series...
...Wilbur K. Hitchcocks of Mt. Pleasant, N. Y., raising English sheepdogs is fun. To their neighbors it is no fun. Last February a court ordered onetime Justice of the Peace Hitchcock to reduce his kennel of more than 40 dogs to "a reasonable number." Last week into Supreme Court at White Plains stormed Neighbor George F. Murphy, textile manufacturer, to charge that the Hitchcocks, in- stead of reducing their dogs, had permitted them to multiply. Retorted Breeder Hitchcock: "Dogs will be dogs." Neighbor Murphy cited noises and odors, described a chart kept by his butler of every howl, yelp...
LIGHTSHIP-Archie Binns-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Anchored off a reef on the Pacific Coast, Lightship No. 167 is called by neighboring Indians "the ship that goes nowhere." But within its battered hull an assorted crew of nine finds plenty of action before the story is over. In dull spells they indulge in philosophical speculation, with religion a favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends...
GENTLEMAN OF VIENNA-Count Hans Wilczek-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Pre-War reminiscences, for those who still like The Blue Danube...
ONCE A WILDERNESS - Arthur Pound - Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). A Michigan patriarch wields benevolent despotism over his broad acres. A comfortable ''realistic'' romance of U. S. farming before horsepower became invisible...