Word: polos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blooded families of the U. S. have founded many a dynasty of bankers, polo players, industrialists, hell-raisers. Few are the dynasties of U. S. churchmen. An outstanding exception are the Kinsolvings of Virginia. George Washington Lee Kinsolving, a Tidewater aristocrat who once cut short a long sermon with, "Parson, isn't it grog time?", was bound that his only son should enter the church. Last week a great-grandson of old George Kinsolving did something as hearty as his ancestor's remark. He announced that he was leaving his big, rich, famed Boston parish for a small...
Captain Gay Dillingham will lead the Crimson malletmen into the polo intercollegiates today at New York. Major Sargent's charges apparently bouneed back into form when they administered a 31 to 1 trouncing to Cornell...
...outstanding U. S. corporation stocks, was in Palm Beach dancing with her socialite husband at the swanky Patio, walking with her bulge-clipped English poodle on her South Ocean Boulevard estate. Her amiable, globe-trotting son, Julius ("Junky") Fleischmann, whose father, Julius Fleischmann Sr., died (heart attack) on the polo field, was ailing in his moated castle in Cincinnati. And her onetime brother-in-law, husky Major (in the A. E. F.) Max C. Fleischmann was on his "Edgewood Ranch" in Santa Barbara, Calif., talking about big-game hunting and the Save-the-Redwoods League of which he is trustee...
...laconic, lantern-jawed Philip Winston Pillsbury, son of the late Director Charles S. of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., was known to Yalemates of the class of '24 as Teedyboom. At Yale he was a guard on the undefeated, untied '23 football team, All-American water-polo player, glee-club tenor. Later, smart, hardworking, deadpanned, he spent eight years in Pillsbury operations, became a master miller (able to make flour), became head of Pillsbury's Eastern grocery products division...
Captain Gay Dillingham helped celebrate W. Cameron Forbes' recent gift of polo equipment to the team by driving home 20 goals as the Crimson ran roughshod over the Cornell malletmen 31 to 1. Until the last period the Red riders were unable to get within scoring distance, as Major Sargent's men won as they pleased...