Word: hitchcock
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Last week a new member was appointed to the defense committee of the U. S. Polo Association-Thomas Hitchcock Sr. His famed son, Thomas Jr., captain of the yet unpicked international team and chief of the defense committee, asked his father to help him because they get on well together and because Thomas Hitchcock Sr. is good at the sort of thing he will do for the committee. Every committeeman has some special job. Mr. Hitchcock Sr.'s will be to train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found...
...such comments, Merrill Hitchcock, executive secretary of the A. S. P. C. A. replied that Nosko's dog had not been seized without warning, protested the Society's fitness to administer and enforce a dog-license law, asserted that A. S. P. C. A. wagons were disinfected twice a day, but admitted license inspectors were paid with commissions...
Peggy was soon making $700 a week, had her own maid and car. Socialite Sonny Whitney. Poloist Tommy Hitchcock, were her good friends (she says). In Chicago Stanley Joyce came into her life. Her marriage with Joyce taught her the last refinements of her peculiar talent: how to spend money. Perhaps that is why, in all her subsequent vicissitudes, she has gratefully kept his name. One week in Manhattan she spent nearly a million dollars. Just shopping. He bought her a house in Coral Gables, Miami, and the neighbors complained of the stink from her monkey house. Said Peggy...
Rated. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. is still the only U. S. polo player whose handicap is 10 goals. Winston Guest is still the only one with 9. But in the new ratings issued last week by the Polo Association there was a new 8-goal man, alone in his group?Elmer J. Boeske Jr. All summer Boeske played in the East with the Greentree team, and his hard shots and adroit riding were one good reason why the Greentree team won the Waterbury cup (TIME, Aug. 5; Sept. 16). J. Cheever Cowdin, William Averell Harriman, and Harry East, all veterans, were...
...Hitchcock. The association made Hitchcock responsible for arranging the defense of the challenge cup against England this year. They appointed him chairman of the defense committee, as well as captain of the team. This means that, like Devereux Milburn in 1924 and 1927, he will be captain of a team picked by the committee of which he is chairman...