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...Davis was high scorer for the Harvard horsemen, scoring three goals in the 30 minutes of play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Polo Team Loses | 3/16/1933 | See Source »

Whizzing up Pennsylvania Avenue, the Hoover-Roosevelt car missed its cavalry escort, had to pause before the Post Office building to let the horsemen catch up. On the mile-&-a-quarter drive Mr. Roosevelt kept up a running fire of conversation with Mr. Hoover. The President, his face drawn and lowered, replied in monosyllables. Street crowds along the way pattered out mild applause which the incoming President left to the outgoing President to acknowledge as his final tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: We Must Act | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Harold Stirling (''Mike") Vanderbilt put up the Vanderbilt Cup for contract bridge teams of four, he has been ambitious to have his own name engraved on it among the winners. Last week, for the first time in five years, he had a good chance. The famed Four Horsemen of bridge-Hal Sims, Willard S. Karn, David Burnstine and Oswald (''Ossie") Jacoby, who won the cup a year ago-were split up. Mr. Vanderbilt was playing with Sims, Karn and Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz, onetime member of Ely Culbertson's Bridge World team which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bridge | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Country clubs were torn into factions, Yalemen turned against Harvardmen. Vanderbilts against Harrimans, horsemen against non-horsemen. Manhasset against Sagamore Hill in the ist Congressional District of New York last week. Even the several hundred thousand plain people inhabiting Long Island were aware that an unusual contest was being waged between curly-headed, soft-eyed Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny"') Whitney* and big. bluff Robert Low Bacon for the latter's seat in Congress. The opponents handled their campaigns with kid rather than loaded gloves, but each bestirred himself energetically. Democrat Whitney, his beauteous second wife, three station wagons, a touring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Kid Glove Contest | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

When the advance reached the Dnieper River, the Poles found themselves badly overextended. Thirty thousand Cossack horsemen under General Simeon Mikhailevich Budenny, fresh from triumphs over

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Kosciuszko Squadron | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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