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...above sea level in a white notch of the Sawtooth Mountains, the doors of Sun Valley Lodge, built to be the No. 1 wintersports resort of the Western Hemisphere, will this week open to a covey of 250 skiers and celebrities topped by Cinemactress Claudette Colbert and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...sandstone on the bank of the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass., Professor Edward Hitchcock of Amherst studied some curious footprints which had been called to his attention, advanced the theory that they were those of huge prehistoric birds. That was in 1858. Later scientists definitely attributed the tracks to Triassic dinosaurs of various sizes and unknown species. Some 20 individual prints were visible, ranging in length from three to 18 inches. The biggest tracks and the longest strides indicated that the largest lizard was 25 ft. long. The trustees of Massachusetts Public Reservations bought the surrounding land from its owner...
FIGHTING AXGEL-Pearl Buck-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...from those of every other horse. He makes a point of discovering and supplying these. One of the most sensational Jacobs horses this summer has been Amagansett, a 6-year-old jumper which Mr. Jacobs got last spring for the nominal price of $1,000 because his owner, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., considered him surly and ill-tempered. Amagansett, who stopped sulking as soon as Trainer Jacobs bought him, has since won eleven races, $11,000 in purses...
...arranging the series the U. S. Polo Association had agreed to let the winners of the U. S. Open Championship represent the country. By substituting Winston Guest for Jock Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2, the team-with Pete Bostwick and Tommy Hitchcock at Nos. 1 and 3-could have been improved but the U. S. Polo Association well knew that no such doings were permissible. Faster turf and the new U. S. mounts made the second game at Meadow Brook last week less one-sided but the upshot was the same. When...