Word: horseman
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Died. Samuel D. Riddle, 89, textiles heir and horseman, owner of the late great Man o' War and his illustrious son War Admiral; in Glen Riddle, Pa. Riddle always insisted that it was his own idea to buy one-year-old Man o' War for $5,000 -although "you'll hear 50 persons tell how they influenced...
...16th Century, their bloodlines to Spain and Arabia. When Patton learned that the Nazis had appropriated the Lipizzans and sent 200 mares and foals to a town in Czechoslovakia, he acted with characteristic dash. He sent a tank column to bring them back to Austria. "America," said Horseman Patton, "must save some part of the old European culture...
...became a behind-the-scenes power in Louisiana politics (he backed the Longs and their friends, including New Orleans' onetime Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, involved with Helis in 1939's "hot oil" scandals); of a lung ailment; in Baltimore. Helis was a big spender, a big horseman, a sturdy Democrat who contributed liberally to Harry Truman's 1948 campaign...
Also honored: the 75-year-old dean of Russian composers, Reinhold Glière, for his new ballet score. The Bronze Horseman. The production of his 23-year-old Red Poppy, one of the most popular ballets in Russia, won prizes for ten leading performers and the directors of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...
...left-of-center party called the National Progressive Union of the Center had made a surprisingly strong showing. Top man of this group is General Nicholas Plastiras, 67, a hero of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922, in which he was known to the Greeks as "The Black Horseman" and to the Turks as "Black Pepper" (what's left of his raven hair is now white). Plastiras led an antiRoyalist coup in 1922; he intended to execute Prince Andrew, father of Britain's Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, but a British destroyer dashed up and rescued Andrew from Plastiras...