Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though shorter and less dangerous than the famed Maryland Hunt Cup race, the Iroquois (three miles, 18 jumps) turned out to be tough. Galsac, the favorite, bowed a tendon on the next-to-last jump. Another horse broke a leg, was destroyed. Winner was Rockmayne, a bay gelding racing in the colors of Louisville's Barbara Bullitt, cousin of Ambassador William Bullitt. His time: 5 min., 41 2/5 sec. Her prize: $1,000 and a leg on an old silver cup made in 1820 for the Earl of Coventry...
Governor Herbert R. O'Connor, of Maryland, and Mayor Howard W. Jackson, of Baltimore, will officially greet the Harvard alumni at the opening luncheon tomorrow afternoon in the Lord Baltimore Hotel...
...Coque Bruyere, a twelve-year-old timber topper owned by John Strawbridge of Philadelphia: the Maryland Hunt Cup, classic climax of the U.S. steeplechase season; outjumping Stuart S. Janney's Vaunt in a neck-&-neck finish to the grueling four-mile race; before a crowd of 25,000; on the estate of Socialite J. W. Y. Martin, near Baltimore. Time...
...most intensive disease-spreading was under way last week in Maryland, where it is subsidized with State funds and helped by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This week a similar campaign begins in New Jersey, where the first few spores were sown in 1939. The method is to heavily infect two half-acre plots of turf (where grubs thrive best) in each square mile. Birds, breezes and flying beetles then complete spreading the disease. Purpose of spore-sowing is not, as in spraying, to kill beetles on a specific plot but to establish the beetle enemy widely. Spore powder...
...Oscars and numerous legs on the cup for the U.S. cinema's ablest actress by her portrayals of suffering women. In The Great Lie she is cast as a lively, homespun, slacks-wearing American girl free from her favorite neuroses. Although the picture has her living on a Maryland plantation, it is far enough north to let her waive the absurdities of a Southern accent...