Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane was built for well-heeled businessmen and corporation executives who want to go anywhere, any time at 180 m.p.h. Other possible buyers: sportsman pilots, newspapers, which have already shown an interest in Mallards with built-in darkrooms, the Navy and Coast Guard, long Grumman's best customers...
...eyes moved back & forth like those of spectators at a tennis match. Afternoons, they focused on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; evenings, on St. Louis' Sportsman's Park. Home and office radios blared play-by-play descriptions; earnest discussions went on at every street corner and water cooler. The Dodgers and the Cards were going down to the wire in the closest of all National League pennant races...
Died. Stewart Edward White, 73, sportsman, explorer, author; in San Francisco. In his best-selling novels (Blazed Trail, The Silent Places, The Rose Dawn) he shared with a whole generation of U.S. men & boys his experiences as Black Hills gold-rusher, Wyoming cowpuncher, Hudson Bay camper, African lion hunter...
...masculine names ("Chukker," "Steeplechase," etc.) for their men-some of whom finally took to getting the stuff for themselves. In the $50,000,000-a-year industry, Courtley has become one of the leaders in class, one of the big six in volume of sales (the other five: Seaforth, Sportsman, Shulton, Yardley, Lenth...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...