Word: poloists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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...