Word: poloists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Wellman took one good look at himself on the screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when Wellman and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock were famed for their trick of flying low over German towns and firing their machine guns at church bells. Said Pershing: "Why, Bill, you old son of a gun, how are you?" Next day Wellman was made an assistant director...
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...
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...
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...
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...