Word: sportsmans
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...most popular winter sports in the U. S. Colleges in the snow belt staged intercollegiate snowshoe meets. The Appalachian Club promoted mountain-climbing on snowshoes. Cross-country races, hundred-yard dashes and hurdle races were the nucleus of every winter carnival, and many a web-footed sportsman went home with a severe case of mal de raquette (lame ankles...
...pair of mink were trapped twelve years ago by high-school graduate Wallace D. Turner, who started a mink farm with them near Pawling, N. Y. Last week Turner sold a half interest in his farm (now largest in North America) to wealthy Sportsman Edward T. Clark, to whose estate near Goshen the 5,000 animals will be moved. Price...
...owner of some 15,000 of their prints, author of four scholarly tomes on antique U. S. lithographs; 4) owner of perhaps the world's best private library of sporting books and prints; 5) promoter of a unique theory: art is more indebted to sport than to religion. Sportsman-Bibliophile Peters has lectured on his thesis at Manhattan's great Metropolitan Museum...
...occasion marked the latest tests of the Marines' newest fighting machine, no screwball toy but the result of seven years of trial & error by 325-pound Sportsman-Inventor Donald Roebling. Originally conceived by Wire Ropeman John A. Roebling as a vessel of mercy and rescue in time of flood, the Roebling-dubbed "Alligator" caught the eye of the Marines, ever watchful for inventions likely to simplify the basic (and most dangerous) maneuver of the Corps, i.e., landing on hostile shores...
Married. Angier Biddle Duke, 24, sportsman tobacco heir and nephew of U. S. Ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.; and Mrs. Margaret Screven White Tuck, 34, Tuxedo Park socialite; a few hours after she secured a divorce from Captain Alexander J. M. Tuck; in Reno...