Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he rowed bow on the Yale crew of 1922, "Sonny" Whitney has been more interested in polo than racing. His various directorates and his interests in Aviation Corp. of the Americas have left him plenty of time to work up a four-goal polo game-good enough to get him into Long Island's intersectional tournaments and the Waterbury Cup matches. He used to go to Belmont and Aqueduct with his father sometimes but, unlike his cousin John Hay ("Jock") Whitney who goes abroad to watch his horse run in the Grand National, "Sonny" Whitney seldom traveled...
...humor with Western civilization. "Very humbly and hopefully'' he went to Benares, holy city of the Hindus, there to sit at the feet of Theosophist Annie Besant, to see her youthful embryo-Messiah Krishnamurti. In between expeditions to Nautch girls and in search of a guru (teacher) he played polo, stuck "pigs" (wild boars). He gives a vivid description of a polo match, a no less vivid account of what it feels like to chase a boar, try to pin it with a lance-thrust. Says he: "In the open, the odds are against the boar, but in blind cover...
...president of American Rolling Mill Co., declared: "The steel industry is like a great giant tied and pulling at its shackles. It is impatient to go. And go he will within a comparatively short time." "A successful and prosperous year in 1931" was predicted by Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr., polo-playing young vice president of Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...second Cornelius Vanderbilt. His children: Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny ) Whitney, Mrs. Flora Payne (G . MacCullough) Miller, Mrs. Barbara (Barklie McKee) Henry. Among corporations of which he was a director were Mammoth Oil Co., Sinclair Oil Co., Guaranty Trust Co, New York Transportation Co. In 1909 he organized the first international polo team to beat England, was never beaten while captain. He maintained the largest of U. S. racing stables, championed and improved the breeding of purely U. S. horses. Among his winners: Irish Lad Regret (only filly ever to win the Kentucky Derby), Whiskery, Whichone, Equipoise, Boojum...
...country life; today you are rollicking with a fine girl and tomorrow you are moping by yourself. ... I have thought of the cleverest plan of life. . . . You exchange your land for Edgehill, or I mine for Fairfields; you marry Sally Prior. I marry Rebecca Burwell, join, and get a polo chair and a pair of keen horses, practice the law in the same courts, and drive about to all the dances in the country together...