Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rider. Near Barcelona, a peasant hitched a ride on a truck carrying an empty coffin. As it was raining, he crawled inside the coffin. Soon, the truck took two more passengers aboard. As they drove on, the peasant raised the lid, ejaculated: "It's stopped raining." Over the side went the other riders in terror. One was killed, the second badly hurt...
Meyer Hiler, about 75, is proud of his son Hilaire. So is all San Francisco. Hilaire Hiler's murals in Aquatic Park are now one of the sights of the town. Papa Hiler has a quiet reputation of his own, as a theatrical agent. A hobby-rider, he also likes to paint pictures-brightly colored, engagingly irresponsible pictures of beach scenes, toylike Venetian canals, imaginary Oriental landscapes, houses like patchwork quilts. Last week Sutter Street's Raymond & Raymond Gallery was exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco...
Tokle was just another ski rider. But in the U. S. he was a sensation. Here was a greenhorn who could jump 157 ft. on sea legs. He lacked the elegant style of Olympic Champion Birger Ruud and Norwegian Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack...
Chad Hanna (20th Century-Fox). Chad is a stable boy in upper New York circa 1840. When Huguenine's One & Only International Circus comes to town, Chad joins it as roustabout. He takes a fancy to Albany Yates (Dorothy Lamour), the high rider, but marries Albany's understudy (Linda Darnell). He slugs it out in a free-for-all brawl with a rival circus, takes over the ringmaster's duties when Owner Huguenine falls ill, quarrels with his wife, leaves her, soon returns in contrition. That is about...
...back to Ireland. Arthur Tolman. a New England horse fancier, took a fierce fancy to him, persuaded Captain Corry to sell him for $1,200. Since then, First Attempt -renamed Little Squire-has been the darling of U. S. horse shows, the household pet of his four successive owners: Rider Danny Shea (trainer for the stable of the late Publisher Hugh Bancroft), Copperman Robert Guggenheim, Boston Clothier William J. Kennedy. Schoolboy Francis Cravath Gibbs (13-year-old grandson of the late Lawyer Paul Cravath), who paid...