Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romance traveled a rocky road; but love, with a brief, side-of-the-mouth laugh at locksmiths, conquered all. Francis Hitchcock, 39, balding younger brother of the late Long Island-polo-playing Tommy Hitchcock, and Stephany Saja, 23, blonde daughter of a Windber, Pa. coal miner, were taking a well-earned vacation-a honeymoon in Rio. It had been a nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony...
...dropped from first to third place. Besides, Mrs. Barney had got a baby-sitter and had come to watch, and Rex owed her a no-hitter (he had promised it after he pitched a one-hitter, nearly a month ago). If only the rain would stop . . . A Polo Grounds clubhouse boy handed Barney a hot dog; against his better judgment, he munched...
...Nizam's vanity, India might still win its minimum demands without bloodshed. India can afford to wait until the Nizam's playboy son, the Prince of Berar, ascends the throne. The Prince is far less interested in wielding power in Hyderabad than in caring for his 180 polo ponies. And the Prince is no friend of Razvi and his Razakars, who might be less troublesome if not backed by the government. Last week, in a pique, the Prince resigned his nominal title of commander in chief of the Hyderabad army. Later he changed his mind. "Father told...
...Friday bounced down on the unbelieving. In all baseball history, there had never been such a roar from the bleachers. It drowned out the news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner (out of print, he has been called worse names), was not the kind of person who invited neutrality...
...hotel's eighth floor. There Dewey's large and highly competent staff operated. There were John Foster Dulles, adviser on foreign affairs, and Elliott Bell, state superintendent of banks and adviser on national policies. In charge of campaign fund-raising was Harold E. Talbott, onetime polo player, director of the Chrysler Corp...