Word: polos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between chukkers of a polo game played at Windsor Great Park, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had a word with her hard-riding husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, while Prince Charles and Princess Anne stood by. Later touring Devonshire, the Queen and her consort had a close scrape when a roadside throng, pressing forward to see the royal pair, toppled a badly anchored 20-ft. flagpole across the highway only a moment after the Queen's open car had passed the spot...
...Liebman Presents (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC). Marco Polo, with Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow...
Bare percentage points on top of the National League, John McGraw's Giants had just dropped the first two of a three-game series with the second-place Chicago Cubs, managed by Frank Chance. In the ninth inning of the final game, the score at the Polo Grounds was tied, 1-1. There were two outs when the Giants' Outfielder "Moose" McCormick beat out a single. Long-legged Fred Merkle, the Giants' first baseman, sent him to third with another single. Shortstop Al Bridwell lined a clean base hit over the head of the Cubs' Second...
...similar situation in Pittsburgh three weeks earlier, Evers had called for the ball, touched second base and claimed a forced out. Umpire Hank O'Day had overruled him, and the league president had not allowed the Cubs' protest. Undaunted, Evers tried again at the Polo Grounds. Fans were already swarming across the infield, but somehow, in the confusion, canny Johnny Evers got his hands on the ball (or a ball) and pushed his way to second. Standing on the bag, he called to the head umpire-the same Hank O'Day. This time O'Day surprisingly...
...years later he helped Nationalist China use its silver hoard to float a $10 million war loan. He has always enjoyed spending money as much as making it. Coming to the U.S. in 1941 "to retire," he first lived in California, then bought a house in Tarrytown, N.Y., played polo, water-skied, flew small planes. After his wife persuaded him to stop flying, he took her up for one last ride, buzzed under the George Washington Bridge in a final amateur airman's salute. To win a $100 bet, he once water-skied down the Hudson