Word: horsewoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ribbons on the horseshow circuit for 15 years. Before her marriage to Croesusrich young Whitney in 1930, Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus was well known in the hunt country around Philadelphia. After acquiring the 2,200-acre, million-dollar "Llangollen" estate near Upperville, Va., Liz Whitney became the most glamorous horsewoman in the U. S. Her drawing-room gum-chewing, social-worker hairdo, haphazard clothes were aped by many lesser socialites. Her riding technique became the very pattern for aspiring horsewomen. Her money-fed horses were the envy of the show-ring. Two years ago at the National she rode...
Among the five who qualified was Alvin Untermyer's Hexameter, ridden by Patricia Bolling, a 99-lb., 22-year-old wisp whom many experts consider the most skillful young horsewoman in the U. S. today. Though Hexameter was nosed out of victory by his stablemate, Illuminator, spectators who had kept their eyes on the horses agreed that Liz Whitney had lost her reign...
...Leading lady horse shower was grey-haired Mrs. Loula Long Combs, a Kansas City horsewoman with 30 years of National competition behind her. Mrs. Combs' harness horses won her eight first-place blue ribbons. A brown mare named Admiration helped her to five of them...
Divorced. Mrs. Elizabeth Eaton Guggenheim, 34, New York socialite-horsewoman ; from Colonel Meyer Robert Guggenheim, heir of the Guggenheim mining and smelting fortune; charging cruelty; in Reno. Three nights after her divorce, Mrs. Guggenheim having flown East, celebrated on Long Island with her horse trainer, John Fry Jr., 23. About dawn next morning they appealed to police with cuts, bruises, and a tale of being attacked and robbed of $460. After investigation the police intimated that it was a case not of robbery but revelry...
Breaking her collarbone when her mount fell at a Long Island horse show, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, able horsewoman, was rushed to a hospital. Hour later she was back again with her arm in a steel splint, remarked: "It would be silly to miss the rest of the show...