Word: sportsmans
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...Khan, multimillionaire spiritual ruler of some 12,000,000 Ismaili Moslems in India and Africa, took a constructive attitude toward the postwar world by buying some new horses and lining up a new bride.* The pumpkin-shaped sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired...
...having had a lot of fun while it lasted, sat back to admire the vastly superior Cardinals, riding to their third consecutive National League pennant on a 161-game lead. But there was at least one St. Louis citizen who still believed in the Browns. Blake Harper, concessionaire at Sportsman's Park, was busy preparing a Browns' World Series program, had ordered 10,000 cases of beer and soda pop, 10,000 pounds of popcorn, 180,000 hot dogs. The extent of his confidence was reflected in the preparation of the wieners; he was tenderizing them with...
...Sportsman Before Pearl Harbor...
...coated bride was young (22), pertly pretty and the "richest girl in the world."The socialite-playboy groom smiled ecstatically and told reporters: "I assure you that it was love at first sight . . . love at first sight." Then amateur Sportsman James H. R. Cromwell and his bride, the former Doris Duke, boarded the Italian liner Conte di Savoia, sailed romantically away on an eight-month, round-the-world honeymoon. That...
...many people were close to the taciturn Long Island sportsman. He was not a mixer. Tall, stocky, powerful, rather a mooncalf to look at, he was inclined to be blunt when he spoke at all. There was little feeling in his face: in the hottest moments of violent polo he was deadpan. He seldom took a drink, never smoked. He left a wife, the former Margaret Mellon (niece of the late Andrew), two daughters, Peggy and Louise and twin sons, Thomas and William...