Word: sportsmans
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...have been an intimate friend of Dr. Spaeth for 48 years. During that time I never heard him use the vulgar expression credited to him as you related. I am very certain that this high-minded scholar and true sportsman never used the expression after his crew won the victory over Harvard...
...Outdoor Life was taken over by Popular Science. Editor McGuire was left with nothing to do. Alone and bored during the long winter evenings in his Mt. Morris farmhouse, he decided to relieve the tedium by publishing a magazine of his own, no sportsman's forum like hearty Outdoor Life but a sophisticated journal to which his friends could contribute. At first he toyed with the idea of bidding for moribund Vanity Fair, then decided to think out an entirely new editorial formula, present it in a brand-new publication...
...well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent. And he gave early signs of a forceful originality. Reporting Antony's convalescence from measles, his father wrote: "Antony has had a very good...
Married. Helen Lee Eames Doherty, step-daughter of Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty; and Theodore Wessel, Danish sportsman; at the home of President Juan Bautista Sacasa in Managua, Nicaragua...
...Palm Beach season reached its height, Liberty Leaguer Alfred Emanuel Smith became a feted guest comparable to John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, tenth Duke of Maryborough. Smith hosts included U. S. Steelman Myron Charles Taylor, Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Sportsman Joseph Early Widener. At a fair held by Palm Beach's swank Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, a Presidential straw vote showed: Smith 705, Landon 390, Roosevelt...