Word: polo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only score card at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds last week was the Bible. Speakers' platforms disguised the diamonds; flower banks decked the pitching mounds; burlap mountains, artificial waterfalls hid second and third bases. New York had never seen a convention so big; even Billy Graham's Yankee Stadium throng last year-100,000, and 10,000 turned away-was small by comparison. From 48 states and 122 foreign countries, Jehovah's Witnesses had gathered 194,000 strong. For eight days they packed both ballparks in a "giant Bible school." Through steamy rain they went...
Kinds of Defeat. As Honest Dickie Kerr recalls, afterwards all the high spots of his career were involved with a sort of defeat. It was Dickie Kerr who threw a two-and-two pitch to a burly batter named Babe Ruth one afternoon in 1921 in the old Polo Grounds. And the Babe belted it so far it set a special kind of record: it broke the hands of an outfield clock some 500 ft. from the plate. It was Pitcher Kerr who asked his boss Charles ("The Old Roman") Comiskey for a raise after winning 40 games...
...leave, in March, he went to the West Coast to sun his ailing sinuses. A lithe, five-goal polo player, Ramfis was presently presiding over ringside tables at Mocambo and L'Escoffier. One evening he grandly wrote out a check for $25,000 to Walter Winchell for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund...
Died. John Shaffer Phipps, 83, financier, lawyer, polo player and father of polo players, lavish traveler (he once hired a private, nine-car train-three for ponies, three for people, three for baggage-for a trip to Florida, also took more than 100 trunks on a European voyage), owner of race horses (Parnassus, Level Lea); in Palm Beach, Fla. Son of Andrew Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps, and uncle of Pologician Winston Guest, John Phipps was a director of U.S. Steel Corp., W. R. Grace & Co., the Hanover Bank...
After watching Britain's Prince Philip and his team of Welsh Guards gambol through a polo match, U.S. Embassy Secretary Elizabeth Davis (granddaughter of the late Norman H. Davis, an F.D.R. ambassador at large) approached the titled gamesman with pen and paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis...