Word: sassoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STEVEN H. SASSOON Carmel, Calif...
Married. Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, aging (77) playboy now confined to a wheelchair, English financier once known as "The J. P. Morgan of the Orient" (before World War II he owned a substantial fraction of metropolitan Shanghai, threw some of the wildest parties in Cathay society), scion of a family whose enormous wealth derived from the China trade (including opium in the old days), prominent figure in English turf circles, cousin of Poet-Novelist Siegfried Sassoon; and Evelyn Barnes, 39, his blonde nurse-companion; both for the first time; in Nassau...
Died. Sir John Collings Squire, 74, British poet, critic, parodist, founder and editor (1919-34) of the now defunct London Mercury magazine; near Heathfield, England. Squire's Mercury was an outlet for the work of such Squire friends as Robert Graves, Robert Bridges, Siegfried Sassoon. listed among its contributors Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, G. B. Shaw, G. K. Chesterton. But the magazine ran onto financial reefs, disappointing Squire, who once wrote...
...Victor Sassoon's 18-to-1 shot, Hard Ridden, win the 179th running of the Derby Stakes while the Queen's horse, Miner's Lamp, trailed in fifth...
...California, U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. (TIME, Dec. 23) and desert the 43-year-old Pacific Coast Conference. With Stanford also slipping away fast, the P.C.C. has one clear course left: divide up its $250,000 bankroll and dissolve. Sassoon's easily ridden colt Hard Ridden ran off with the Derby Stakes at Epsom Downs by five lengths over the 100-to-1 shot Paddy's Point. A casual bargain picked up at public auction for $792, Hard Ridden repaid Millionaire Banker Sir Victor's investment with...