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Sportswriter Rice really started to make a national name himself when he went to work for the old New York Mail. He moved on to the Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...
...culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding a horse got 100 lashes. The viceroyalty threw off the rule of Spain in 1823, later crumbled into five...
...Charge of the Light Brigade and TIME'S [May 10] review of The Reason Why: It's too obvious to be another "story of a blunder" . . . when you reported that "some 700 horsemen" rode, etc., but Alfred, Lord Tennyson sent in only "six hundred." At least, a footnote to keep us straight...
...some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot and a limp in his walk. It was a stone bruise. The Dancer was retired for the rest of the-year. Tom Fool, a fabulous four-year-old, won New York's three big handicap races (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). Horsemen who had hoped to see Tom Fool and Native Dancer in the same race were disappointed...
...maturity, the hefty, muscular look that horsemen associate with sprinters had taken on some of the longer, stringier look associated with stayers. The result, remarked the Morning Telegraph's Evan Shipman, is a sort of "intermediate conformation" that may some day become fixed as "the American horse," a kind versatile enough to win the big ones at both short and long distances. "The Dancer," said Bill Winfrey, "has grown from boy into...