Word: hitchcock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best players that swanky Eastern polo could produce had been ridden groggy by a hard-hitting, hell-for-leather Western four, beaten in the first of three games, 15 to 11 (TIME, Aug. 21). Since he became a 10-goal player in 1922 the East's Captain Thomas Hitchcock had never been challenged on a field as the West's Cecil Smith had challenged him last fortnight...
...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...
...second game had hardly begun when the West realized that for its rough play in the first game the East was giving back double measure. This time it was the Eastern player who shouldered his opponent out of the way, swung his mallet heedlessly in races for the ball. Hitchcock took the game's first bad tumble, his pony rolling over him, pinning his 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...
...whose hair is red and long, belongs to that school of comedians originated by the late, droll Raymond Hitchcock. He takes personal charge of the proceedings, tells the audience what is going on backstage and when a joke is too feeble to put itself across. Mr. Fay has an assistant who starts shouting, "Eh? Eh?" This is not very funny...
...Senate would not swear him in in his bedroom at Lincoln. A bitter party feud between the Governor and Arthur Mullen, Democratic national committeeman, also helped to stalemate the Senatorial choice. Democrat Mullen wanted to consolidate his grip on Federal patronage by getting his friend Gilbert Monell Hitchcock, one-time (1911-23) Senator, back into his old job. But Governor Bryan was in no mood to foreclose his own chance of going to the Senate...