Word: polos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside your magazine you print the picture of a benevolent, timidly smiling, white-haired gentleman. Inside your magazine you print the story of Devereux Milburn, aggressive, hard riding, cyclonic captain of the U. S. Polo Team. Which is which? I have seen Milburn, talked to him; watched him play. As a rabid polo fan and a strenuously American citizen I resent your artist, S. J. Woolf's drawing. I enclose a copy of a drawing printed in Polo, which translates the indomitable power of the real Milburn into black and white lines on paper. P. L. FINK...
...Milburn is truly an intimidating figure when wrought up in a polo game. TIME, abhorring single-sided presentation, wrote about him thus; printed a drawing of him in one of his milder, but no less characteristic moments. Herewith is the drawing (by famed Hugo Gellert) from Polo...
...Cuba, the U. S. Army waited until July. Then one morning the first cavalry, holding rifles across their chests, rushed up San Juan hill. Behind them was the second brigade, 500 men on horseback standing in their stirrups and galloping along, shouting curses or encouragement to one another like polo players. They called themselves the "Rough Riders." Theodore Roosevelt got off a little black horse to lead his men. Leonard Wood was pulling the mouth of a big roan. A few hours later that battle too was won and one soldier told another, as they pulled off their sweaty shirts...
Floods came, winds blew and beat upon International Field at Meadowbrook Club, Long Island. Experts prodded the turf, found it saturated, slippery. The first U. S.-England polo match, scheduled for Sept. 5 (TIME, Sept. 5), was put off until Sept...
Married. Miss Nancy Waterbury, daughter of Lawrence Waterbury, onetime (1902-14) U. S. International Polo Player; to one Harry Carter Milholland Jr., at Saratoga Springs...