Word: poloist
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Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...
Died. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 80, captain of the first U.S. International polo team, trainer of great steeplechase jumpers, hunters, polo ponies, father of famed poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr.; of coronary thrombosis; in Old Westbury...
...born 57 years ago, in Nashville, Tenn. He went from West Point (1902-06) into the Cavalry, has never regretted the eleven years of sound grounding in Army principles which he got in that service. In the best Cavalry tradition, he was a proficient poloist. He married a girl who was also a poloist and who actually played on Army teams: Jeannette ("Johnnie") Allen, daughter of the late Major General Henry T. Allen, who commanded the U.S. Army of Occupation in Germany after World...
Horses to Tanks. Adna Romanza Chaffee began Army life as a cavalryman. He had a good reason: his father was a famous cavalryman who distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War, was Chief of Staff in 1904-06. Adna too loved horses and got to be a top Army poloist before World War I. On staff duty in France, he saw that the intense fire of machine guns and artillery had outmoded cavalry in battle zones. Unlike some cavalrymen, he took the lesson to heart, looked around for some substitute for the mobile striking power which cavalry once provided...
...commander of the new, rapidly expanding Armored Force is an Army athlete, poloist, artilleryman: 53-year-old Jacobs Loucks Devers (rhymes with severs). One of the Army's youngest major generals, a colonel until 1940, "Jakie" Devers has lately done very well in command of Fort Bragg, N.C., and the Ninth (Infantry) Division. So far as actual practice or command goes, he has everything to learn about tanks. His compensating assets: a proved talent for vigorous command, a capacity for letting qualified subordinates use their brains and experience, constructive disrespect for red tape...