Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ogden Minton Pleissner seems born to the tweed. He has the cool eyes and calm hands of the sportsman, and he puffs a pipe as if it were part of himself. Duck, trout and partridge are Pleissner's meat; bourbon-on-the-rocks is his drink. He is equally at home in the uplands of Wyoming, in the Vermont hills, where he mainly vacations nowadays-and in his Manhattan studio. When Pleissner is not hunting or fishing, he paints pictures of a highly successful kind. This week 24 of his latest, including the watercolors opposite, went on view...
Penny's Ante. The names of some of the owners of the Yonkers Raceway, meanwhile, were made public. Head of the Yonkers Trotting Association and owner of all voting stock is William H. Cane, 79, sportsman who built Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City (scene of the Dempsey-Carpentier "Battle of the Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman...
...late wife's estate, Bing Crosby bowed out of racing to raise some hard cash. Of his 65 race horses put up for auction in Hollywood, 58 were sold in two days for $85,000, which Crosby will split with his partner, Sportsman Lin Howard. Under California's community property law, Mrs Crosby owned half of Bing's vast holdings (oil, real estate, frozen juice), putting him in the position of paying federal and state inheritance taxes on property he had piled up himself. At his Nevada ranch, Bing shrugged, "Taxes are taxes...
London papers carried an appeal from Jockey Gordon Richards to a thief, name unknown. Preoccupied with his fast-approaching accolade of knighthood, Sir Gordon requested only that the thief be a "sportsman" and return a gold cigarette case, a gift from the late King George V. As one sportsman to another, Richards was willing to write off the rest of the loot: a pair of gold spurs, a gold compact and pencil, a box of cigars, half a bottle of whisky and an unspecified amount of money...
...career may be over as she is suffering from a malady reportedly of malignant nature . . . The Associated Press Poll of the Baseball Writers' Association of America predicted that the World Series will have the Yankees facing the Dodgers again this fall. . . Harvard's subsidiary, the St. Louis Cardinals, bought Sportsman's Park from the Browns. . . Chick Harbert fired a four-under-par 68 to take a one-stroke lead in the first round of the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia...