Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
...Water Polo. First riot of the Xth Olympiad occurred after the first match in the water polo tournament, when Germany had beaten Brazil, 7 to 3. Angered by the decisions of the referee, huge Bela Komjadi of Hungary, two of the Brazilians crawled out of the pool and attacked him. Their teammates helped them. The Germans helped Referee Komjadi. Dr. Leo Donath of Hungary, secretary of the International Swimming Federation, tried to stop the fight. Police arrived and whacked him as well as the battling contestants. Bruised and bitter, Dr. Donath left the arena. Said Referee Komjadi: "The Brazilians have...
Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...
...financial bulwarking made it an appropriate party last year to a merger with Brown Bros. & Co., forming Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Another Harriman venture is Harriman & Co., a small firm doing a lucrative business in commercial paper. Virile Son Harriman enjoys sport as well as work, is an expert polo player with a 4-goal handicap. In business his luck has been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while...
Married. Dunbar Wright Bostwick, Yale polo and hockey player, brother of Gentleman Jockey George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick (TIME, June 27); and Electra Webb, great-granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt and of James Watson Webb; at Garden City...