Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When news of the revolt was brought I was at my summer place playing polo on my private polo field. I immediately went to my father's side in Pizarro Palace in Lima. He told me he was heartsick and discouraged . . . and was already formulating the names of those in a junta who should govern the country. One of the disloyal men in his administration spoke up to him and demanded that he should include his name on the list. I. very peacefully, hit him in the face and took him to the window and threw him out into...
...course everything we had has been swept away. To get to Europe and back here I had to sell my last pearl studs. . . . I have wealthy friends here. I used to play polo with Tommy Hitchcock. . . . But I do not want money from them. If they should offer to lend me money I would fling it in their faces...
...Paper. While answering the buzzer, he got to know another young Lee, Higginson employe named Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., who knew a lot about Freeport Texas. Jock Whitney became Freeport's largest stockholder and a director. He drifted away from Lee, Higginson to manage his race horses and polo ponies and now rarely spends more than three months a year in Manhattan. The man who upped Jock Whitney from a director to a full-fledged major corporation executive was President Langbourne Meade Williams Jr., son of a Richmond, Va. banker who helped found Freeport in 1913. Working control...
Allan Townsend Winmill 'St., on Mill Neck, New York, has been elected captain of the Freshman polo team. He prepared at St. Mark...
Edwin Augustus Hills, 2d. '87, of Brookline, was chosen as Manager of the 195 polo team after the competition which just ended. He prepared at Rival's School...