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...first international polo team (1886), later became the country's No. 1 steeplechase trainer. Tommy's mother was called "the Mother of American Polo." She was Louise Eustis Hitchcock, daughter of James Biddie Eustis, Grover Cleveland's Ambassador to France. Prime mover in the horsy affairs of Aiken, S.C., she set Tommy in a saddle when he was three, started his polo training when he was five...
...Prime mover is Major Andre Baruch, ex-CBS announcer.* When the Americans hit the North African beaches in November 1942, Lieut. Baruch was aboard ship off Casablanca, telling the French to take it easy. When the shooting was over, he and Clayton Dow, another ex-CBSer, and Houston A. Brown, ex-engineering professor (both are now majors), sat around with not much to do, decided to build a radio station...
...world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...
...Prime mover against this unchristian hoodlumism was a Methodist, Dr. Allen E. Claxton of the Broadway Temple. He organized an interfaith (Christian and Jewish) group, got 90% of Washington Heights Protestant pastors to preach Sunday sermons against antiSemitism, carry on a day-by-day agitation for religious and racial tolerance. Recognizing that anti-Semitism is not wholly a one-sided matter, the rabbis in the group will also preach to their Jewish congregations on tolerance. Children will receive special instruction at Sunday schools and recreation centers...
...perhaps the most expatriated of the young expatriates was Harold Stearns, who was known to his intimates as a "picturesque ruin." Behind Harold Stearns, in America, lay the broken promise of a brilliant career-essays in The New Republic, editorship of The Dial, prime mover of the famous iconoclastic symposium Civilization in the United States. To the ruin of his career, Expatriate Stearns seemed anxious to add the ruin of himself. The news of his death caused friends to remember the days when, as he confessed in his autobiographical The Street I Know, he made a career of drink...