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...manfully to bring the social irreconcilables together. He had little luck. The only real fraternization went on in the party of tall, dark Mrs. Edwin Earl and her husband, whose father owned Los Angeles' defunct Express. Her group contained Lawyer Thomas Joyce, Comedian Robert Benchley, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell, Poloist Eric Pedley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Middick | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...woman customer went into such hysterics she had to be led out. On hand was Producer Zanuck's assistant, Poloist Aidan Roark. But he was blacked out by the burlier presence of the picture's villain, enormously popular colored Cinemactor Maceo B. Sheffield. Also present was Producer Friedrich's Scripter Dana Burnett. The surges of surflike laughter told both scouts that the canny Parson Friedrich had scored again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Among 13 horses who failed to finish were the two U. S.-owned entries: Poloist Louis Stoddard Jr.'s Milano and Poloist Jock Whitney's National Night, who, none the less proud because he was riderless, galloped across the finish line in front of Bogskar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Almost as Grand National | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...famed Oliver Wendell Holmeses (the author of Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and the Supreme Court Justice), Owen Wister, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, President Theodore Roosevelt (the Franklin Roosevelts go Fly Club). Among its living members are Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Congressman Hamilton Fish, Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr., U. S. Ambassador to Italy William Phillips, Journalist Joseph Alsop, and Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing Prison, of whom all good Porkies prefer not to speak. The Pore is very much a family affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pore | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...traveling expenses, hotel bills, entrance fees (sometimes as much as $100 for one event). If he competes at calf roping, he has to pay the feed bill and transportation cost of his specially trained horse (even more necessary to a calf roper than trained ponies are to a poloist). If he competes at steer wrestling, he has to hire a "hazer" (a mounted assistant to flank the steer going out of the chute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Career Cowboys | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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