Word: pedley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...Stockbroker Pedley, who lays aside his spectacles when he dons his polo togs, had long ago given up whoopdedo polo. But when things looked darkest, Pedley dribbled the ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...
...Angeles, on ABC's unrehearsed Bride & Groom program (TIME, Dec. 17), Emcee John Nelson, vimful of interest, asked impending groom Monroe St. John: "Did you propose, or did Jane [Pedley]?" Replied St. John, with a faraway look in his eyes: ". . . We were just lying down on the-" (Emcee Nelson interrupted, in a rapid gasp: "You were sitting this...
Burbank's Lockheed Air Terminal, with its buildings painted a wartime khaki, was drab under a cloudy sky when American Airlines' Captain Charles F. Pedley lifted his Douglas twin-motored liner off for the 4:30 p.m. flight to New York. He climbed gradually to skim the jagged, purple San Jacinto Mountains. Forty minutes after the takeoff, approaching Palm Springs, he was flying at 9,000 in clear sunshine. There were numerous planes in the air; Pilot Pedley was straight on his course...
FIVE ALARM FUNERAL-Stewart Sterling-Putnam ($2). Criminally induced holocausts in New York City, as well as several murders, a spot of acid hurling and dirty work among the smoke-eaters, are all traced to the proper parties by Chief Fire Marshal Ben Pedley. Refreshing new scene, robust talk, unflagging action, and a completely cockeyed motive-which readers may ignore without spoiling the yarn...