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William Aver ell Harriman, 40. banker (Brown Bros., Harriman & Co.), poloist, was elected chairman of Illinois Central Railroad's executive committee. This marks the first entrance of Mr. Harriman into railroad management although he was recently made a director of Union Pacific, In the affairs of both Union Pacific and Illinois Central Mr. Harriman's father, the late Edward Henry Harriman, was dominant. Union Pacific has a 25% interest in Illinois Central...
...Water Poloist, Old-Style...
...hard-driven pony of Poloist H, W, ("Rube") Williams (international squad) stumbled against the boundary boards of a San Mateo, Calif, polo field, leaped clean through a crowded spectators' box, felled one man in transit, crashed into two parked autos. Poloist Williams hurt his knee...
...George H. ("Pete") Bostwick, famed young poloist and gentleman jockey: the Byers Cup golf tournament at Aiken, S. C. C. Grinning, feline Jean Borotra; Tilden-esque Francis Shields; curly-haired Clif- ford Sutter; stumble-footed Berkeley Bell: their easy first-round tennis matches in the National Indoor Singles Championships; in Manhattan...
...William Averell Harriman and his brother, Edward Roland Noel Harriman, formed W. A. Harriman & Co. Work, say friends, burned out the senior Harriman. Unlike his father, W. A. Harriman is a strenuous athlete, famed chiefly as a poloist. In 1920 he set out to make the U. S. great upon the sea, formed an alliance with Hamburg-American Line. Thwarted in the fulfillment of this, he has endeavored to place the name of Harriman in the air as his father did upon the land, and last year his firm together with Lehman Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other...