Word: polos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While De Sapio is making the proper maneuvers in public-keeping Harriman alive as a candidate, but not pushing him too far out-Averell Harriman will be working intensely toward the goal in his own way. At whatever game he is playing -polo, croquet, iskiing, bridge, railroading, diplomacy, politics-he has a consuming urge to keep working, driving, doing. One reason for that urge may well be the fact that, if he had been inclined to loaf, he would not have had to turn a hand throughout his life. His father gave him many of the rewards men work...
...Arden, near Bear Mountain, where his father built a 100-room French Renaissance-style house on a 20,000-acre estate with a private railroad. The villages of Harriman and Arden were established near by just to supply the Harrimans. Below the main house were imposing stables, a polo field, a track for exercising trotting horses...
Dove for Love. Heading for Peking, Nenni stopped off in Moscow for some full VIP treatment. At a dinner given for him by the Stalin Peace Prize Committee, onetime (1951) Prizewinner Nenni recalled that another Italian traveler, one Marco Polo, had also traveled to Peking, where the Great Khan had entrusted him with two beautiful maidens he wanted to save from the snares of court life. Said Nenni: "Well, there is no longer a Great Khan at Peking, but rather the head of the people's government. He will not hand us young girls to be saved...
What an exquisite balance you achieved in presenting the life of Frank Sinatra one week, and that of Herman Wouk the next. I particularly enjoyed the juxtaposition of Sinatra's "Polo Grounds for a closet," and Wouk's "Possessions are disastrous," or again, Sinatra's "I don't need anybody in the world. I did it all myself," and Wouk, whose day "does not begin at his desk, but in prayer...
...Polo, no longer merely a rich man's hobby, has spread from the East to Texas and California, with the box-office instead of coupon-clipping to defray expenses...