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Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Meadow Brook | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Married. Marta Abba, 31, Italian-born actress (Tovarich), to Severance Allen Millikin, 42, poloist, director of Cleveland Trust Co., grandson of the late Steelman John Long Severance; in Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Divorced, Aidan Roark, 36, Irish-born international poloist (rating: 8 goals), Twentieth Century-Fox scenario executive; by Esther Foss Moore Roark, 32, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Los Angeles. Grounds: rudeness. Mrs. Roark testified that once, driving with her from Carmel to Los Angeles in wind & rain, he insisted on keeping the car's top down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 3, 1938 | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Died. Howell Howard, 39, Dayton Ohio paper manufacturer and five-goal poloist; of a fractured skull and lacerations of the brain, caused when his pony fell during a Meadow Brook Club match between the Foxhunters and Narragansett, for whom Poloist Howard played No. 2; at Mineola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Between seasons Colonel Wise once tested, and later compared with a shark's, the pull that a man can exert swimming against rod & reel. His figures for a 6 ft. 3 in. Princeton water poloist harnessed, and for young male Sand sharks of the same weight (200 lb.) hooked in the mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Sharks | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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