Word: sportsmans
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...considers himself a gourmet because he speaks menu French and probably reads the food page in Playboy. And of course he is a martini crank ("vodka not gin, shaken not stirred"), a tailor's dummy (Benson, Perry and Whitley, 9 Cork Street, London W.1), and a blood sportsman who would rather hunt quail (Eunice Gay son) than Red birds...
...stories in every field of human endeavor, who had gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria to help celebrate the birthday. The party provided a unique opportunity for businessman to meet musician, for architect to meet politician, for entertainer to meet scientist, for general to meet churchman, for physician to meet sportsman. "The point of this party." said Editor in Chief Henry R. Luce, "is the people who are here, that they should enjoy meeting each other face to face, as we hope they have enjoyed meeting each other in the pages of TIME." Light Hearts & Great Issues. The people who were...
Almost any sport is exciting if understood from the sportsman's point of view. Wide World has proved this with programs on dogsled races, judo and Australian-rules football. The show's interests are only partly eccentric, however; most of its attention goes to the American standards-football, basketball, baseball, track, swimming, and so on. It uses blimps and helicopters to film events like auto races-blimps to show the overall field and helicopters to swoop down and give an idea of the speed of the cars. It uses Aqua-Lungs to get under competitive swimmers and shoot...
...horsemen, like lovers, are optimists. "If you had your choice, which would you rather win-the World Series or the Kentucky Derby?" someone asked Millionaire Sportsman John Galbreath. He just laughed. His Pittsburgh Pirates had won the Series in 1960; now his Chateaugay was making a run for the roses. The horse had cost Galbreath $2,000,000-the price he paid for its sire, Swaps, the 1955 Derby winner. But Chateaugay was still a 9-1 long shot...
...Irene burst forth in the playgirl mold, married an international socialite-sportsman named Freddie McEvoy, whose outdoor sport was bobsledding, and whose indoor hobby was cavorting with the Errol Flynn crowd. Charlene watched in wide-eyed wonder, but did not join in the fun. She went to Finch College in New York, where she won glowing good grades. At about the same time, her father was winning as a bride a California model named Jayne Larkin-only a few years older than Charlene...