Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Robert Sterling Clark, 79, publicity-shy Singer Sewing Machine heir, sportsman (his horse Never Say Die won Britain's Epsom Derby in 1954), scholar and art collector; after a stroke; in Williamstown, Mass. Collector Clark quietly salted away a vast store of art treasures for most of his life, in 1955 began to display his collections publicly at the air-conditioned, superbly lighted Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a $3,000,000 free public museum in Williamstown (TIME...
Accountants summed up the estate of Sportsman William Woodward Jr., accidentally shot to death 14 months ago by his wife Ann in her belief that he was a prowler (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955 et seq.). Inheritance taxes will gobble more than $6,000,000 of his net estate of $10,186,299. Ann was left the life income from a $1,300,000 trust; upon her death, their two sons are to get her trust principal...
After serving as business manager for a weekly magazine, the Independent, he helped found The Sportsman and remained with it until it folded in 1937. Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor of Massachusetts, appointed Cabot to head the state Development and Industrial Commission...
...flourish of trumpets, a, bronze bowl flaring with fire, a grey whir of pigeons beating upward above the banners of 68 nations, a parade of athletes swearing allegiance to a sportsman's creed-all this proclaimed last week that the 1956 Olympic Games had begun...
London: Aging Sportsman and Financier (Chase Manhattan Bank) Winthrop Aldrich, 71, will retire, probably to be replaced by a younger sportsman and financier (and Eisenhower bridge partner), John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...