Word: seaton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship slewed sidewise into the ground. Like the Braniff crash, the crack-up of a Northwest Airlines Lockheed near Miles City, Mont. Jan. 13 was due to mechanical failure. Last week CAA announced its apparent cause: a fire, originating in a floorboard compartment in the pilot's cabin through which...
...Flowing Gold, winner in the class for large saddle horses; Mrs. John Hay Whitney's string of dappled grey hunters; Mrs. William C. Cox's bay gelding hackney pony Cassilis Mighty's Mite, who won the Killearn Farm Challenge Trophy; Mrs. Paul Moore's famed Seaton Pippin, world's champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner of the $1,000 International Military Sweepstakes. As a 4-year-old-the bones...
...Irish hunter Margot; H. Hollon Crowell's hunter Sir Conrad?won more than their usual share of blues. In the harness classes, there was a seasoned show-horse which no comparatively new competitor could hope to displace. This was Mr. & Mrs. Paul Moore's aging bay harness mare, Seaton Pippin. On the opening night she won her 185th blue ribbon...
...Seaton Pippin, by Marlboro, out of Phosphate, by Polonius, holds the world's record as a hackney. She has won more championships than any other horse in her class, has never been defeated in single harness nor in hand. Named (like the Moore stables, Seaton Hackney Farm at Morristown, N. J.) for Lady Seaton, international hackney champion who was retired in 1917. she was foaled eleven years ago and shown for the first time three years later. At five, she won the reserve championship. Since then, she has won the $2,000 harness horse stake at the National Horse Show...
...Certainly I'd like tea!" cried Mrs. George Reed, and amid general laughter she slapped her hostess on the back, slapped with such gusto that Mrs. Seaton-Smith suffered shock, indignity, sued...