Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headquarters on Pigeon Key, he was told by Toll District General Manager Brooks Bateman that "nobody's going to see [the books]." Williams became more suspicious when he noticed that the district's "work boat" was actually a cruiser equipped with fishing chairs, outriggers and a sportsman's flying bridge. He also noticed a large highway-owned swimming pool, which had been "built for the benefit of the public" but never opened because officials later found that "state insurance regulations . . . prevented" them from doing...
Married. Jaime Ortiz Patino, 25, Bolivian tin heir, nephew of Tin Baron Antenor Patino; and Joanne Connelly, 23, former Manhattan debutante; he for the first time, she for the second (five months after her previous marriage, to Banker-Sportsman Robert Sweeny, ended in divorce); in Paris...
Commented Overseer Thomas W. Slocum '90: "I would rather have one sportsman than a thousand yellow-streaked Carusos...
...coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches], and perfectly phrased the ultimate test of a true sportsman, "He draweth not his flask in secret...
Pleissner's main strengths as a painter are the same that make him an able sportsman: patience and firmness. These old-fashioned virtues, combined with a lively feeling for landscape, have made Pleissner one of the nation's bestselling artists and won his work wall space in no less than 33 public collections. Pleissner may never mount Olympus, but he roams a respectable foothill...