Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon his own testimony, he carefully concealed evidence, the polo coat and the note, which he considered of great importance. Upon his own testimony he took but fifteen minutes in which to complete his complicated investigation of five people. His "anything you say will be held against you" attitude in dealing with George is uncomfortably reminiscent of the methods of the blustering sergeant. And this is the basis of his recommendation for George's arrest. His conduct of the case and his testimony in court are a disgrace to Harvard...
Early in the second quarter of the game between St. Mary's and Fordham at New York City's Polo Grounds last week, a St. Mary's back sent a terrific punt from midfield deep into the left-hand corner of Fordham's territory. Fordham's Maniaci, standing just inside the goal line, was watching which way the ball would bounce. To his surprise it bounded from the turf to his hip, his helmet, then rolled into the end zone. While he was deciding what to do next, St. Mary's Meister fell...
...squash, fishing. From the Restigouche River in New Brunswick he sends home salmon to his friends, his acquaintances, his barber. Robert Lehman, grandson of Emanuel and son of Philip, married Ruth Owen Meeker, daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, collects Italian primitives, plays occasionally on the Greentree and Sands Point polo teams with Tommy Hitchcock. John Milton Hancock, long-distance runner at the University of North Dakota, Wartime Naval Commander and supply-purchaser, hunts mountain sheep in British Columbia. He specializes in the affairs of Lehman Bros, clients such as Sears. Loose-Wiles, Jewel Tea, other national merchandise distributors. Mr. Hancock...
...Life Saving and 1,000 assorted athletic cups, badges, plaques. He is the father of five expert swimmers and water poloists, one of whom, Joseph Jr., captained an Annapolis team in 1931. At the New York Athletic Club, where Ruddy is coach of the nation's championship water polo team (TIME, April i), members boast that no one has yet equaled Joe Ruddy's record for submersion (3 min. 19 sec.). Last week Joe Ruddy smashed that record to smithereens by disappearing entirely...
...immediate subscription drive, thinks he can double the paper's circulation (3,000) in a year, may eventually make it a daily. He plans to write no column, was persuaded to abandon editorial innovations. Friends give him six months' active charge, predict he will thereafter return to polo...