Word: horseman
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...feet 2 inches, 200 pounds), he has a strong, square face lightly marked by small pox. At 44, he is in perfect condition but for several missing teeth. He dresses in a fine uniform of dark blue faced with buff, set off by brass buttons. He is a great horseman -some say the best in Virginia...
...engulfed by murder madness," said Thomas Passmore, Grand Master of Belfast's Orange Lodge. William Cardinal Conway, Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, described the Whitecross killings as "spitting in the face of Christ." Added a deeply pessimistic editorial in Dublin's Irish Times: "The headless horseman is driving Northern Ireland full tilt down the road to hell...
...Stade's departure at the end of the academic year will close a 35-year Harvard career that began in the early 30s with von Stade's arrival as a polo-playing freshman straight out of St. Paul's, the son of a famed horseman and grandson of a lawyer for financier J.P. Morgan...
...called The Professionals in 1966, a hearty, amusing enterprise full of pulp-magazine notions about honor under pressure. Bite the Bullet is made in blatant-indeed, often desperate -imitation of The Professionals, and the character Hackman plays is a virtual reincarnation of Robert Ryan's softspoken, steel-fisted horseman of the previous film. Instead of forming a ragtag commando unit, though, the heroes now make up a party of racers, heading over 700 miles of rugged territory for $2,000 in prize money...
Divorced. Alfred G. Vanderbilt, 62, multimillionaire horseman, and his third wife, former Chicago Socialite Jean Harvey, 38; after 18 years of marriage, three children; in an uncontested proceeding in Manhattan. The divorce followed almost two years of separation, during which Vanderbilt was seen frequently on and off the track with comely Jockey Robyn Smith, 29, who often rides wearing the cerise and white silks of Vanderbilt's Sagamore Farm stables...