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Born Lou Rapaport in New Haven, 32-year-old Barry Wood is, like Rudy Vallee and Lanny Ross, one of Yale University's gifts to popular music. He took his Ph.B. in 1930, was a crack relay swimmer and water poloist. Recently Barry Wood was named nation's "Sweater Boy"-by two knitting works, in a belated effort to right the unbalance created by Hollywood's sweater girls...
Oldtime turfmen like Poloist Carleton Burke (only Far Westerner ever admitted to the Jockey Club) and Boston-born Charles E. Perkins, who had kept on raising polo ponies and show horses during California's lean years, began to enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches...
...dance steps in the New York horse show last month, and the new President has made many gringo friends by way of his two-goal polo, which is sharpened to the verge of three-goal by clever, tricky play. His favorite polo pony is named Lady Hitchcock, after Poloist Tommy Hitchcock...
...seven: !- Norwood Francis Allman, chief editor of Shun Pao, China's largest independent daily. A native of Virginia, lawyer and poloist, Allman went to China in 1916 with the U. S. Consular Service, resigned in 1923 to practice law in Shanghai. Two years ago, Shun Pao's Chinese owners called in Lawyer Allman, asked him to take over management of the paper, see that nothing offensive to the Japanese crept into its columns. A fluent Chinese linguist, Allman reads every story that goes into Shun Pao, writes editorials, corrects editorials written by staff members. He serves without...
...most U. S. sport fans, the name of Hitchcock means America's greatest polo player. To horsemen, Hitchcock also means America's greatest steeplechase trainer. Oldtimers remember well when Thomas Hitchcock Sr., father of Tommy the Poloist, was a hell-for-leather rider himself. A Long Island swell, he learned polo at Oxford, was one of the first ten-goalers in the U. S., captained the first international polo team that challenged England for the Westchester...