Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from college with Honorable Mention in Economics, Banker Woodward began to build up his stud farm by learning all there was to know about blood lines. He scoured the U. S. and Europe for the blood he wanted. He evidently got what he was looking for. Last spring Horse & Horseman selected Woodward's 19-year-old Marguerite?whose four colts (Petee-Wrack, Gallant Fox, Fighting Fox and Foxbrough II) have earned over a half million dollars?as the most eminent broodmare in America. When in 1923 William Woodward felt that he was ready to pit his thoroughbreds against the best...
...character. Their antique furniture is sober, solid, sleek. The décor is dashing-glass bricks instead of windows, great expanses of mirror, an occasional ultramodern doodad. Evidence of Whalen the businessman is tactfully absent. But Whalen the civic leader shows in prints of old New York, Whalen the horseman in a framed blue-ribbon, Whalen the family man in a group shot of his attractive wife and three children. And the gadgets display the Whalen flair for imaginative showmanship. Each step in one flight of stairs is a drawer. A flick of the hand converts part...
Last week, a solitary horseman buckety-bucked across the bridge to Treasure Island into the Fair grounds. V. H. Henderson had followed the race route, scrupulously refrained from changing horses until he had ridden 25 miles-consequently had won the booby prize (honorary) hands down. Seeing nothing funny in his place or predicament, Horseman Henderson angrily announced he would sue the Nocona Chamber of Commerce. Then he began looking for a way to get home...
Born. To Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 40, multimillionaire horseman, and his wife, the former Gwladys Crosby ("Gee") Hopkins, 33: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
Born. To Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 26, multimillionaire horseman, onetime "most eligible bachelor in the U. S."; and his wife, the former Manuela ("Molly") Hudson, 24: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Wendie...