Word: stewart
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...Guard is pleased. Stewart Iglehart, 75, a top competitor from the sport's golden age in the '20s and '30s, wrote recently that "today's ponies ... have noticeably less polish on the field"; his tone suggested that some of the riders are not too polished either. But like it or not, the sport of kings, which traces its roots back through England and India to Persia in 525 B.C., is now enjoyed by the likes of the "Bruise Brothers," a pair of upstart investment bankers who compete in Santa Barbara, Calif., and the bread-and-butter players who gather regularly...
Eagerly seeking out this big-ticket clientele, corporate sponsors like Rolex, BMW and even Harrah's Trump Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., have jumped in and ponied up backing for teams and tournaments. This year Shearson Lehman/ American Express put $250,000 into sponsoring polo, says Marketing Director Cathy Stewart, "because it is changing from an elite to an upscale audience." TV has come acovering. The first major network broadcast, of a Long Island tournament, will be shown on NBC-TV in three weeks. And the sport has its own magazine...
...understand better the genetic basis of cancer, Philip Leder, a molecular geneticist at the Harvard Medical School and his colleague Timothy Stewart, have bred a line of transgenic mice that may someday serve as a model for human breast malignancy. He designed a DNA hybrid consisting of a gene called c-myc, which has been implicated in animal and human cancer, linked to a regulatory segment of another gene that is expressed in developing and lactating breast tissue. Soon after female mice with the injected gene give birth and begin nursing, they grow sizable tumors in their breasts. Perhaps more...
...pick. TIME's journalists brilliantly fit the bill in many cases, but we also thought Henry Kissinger was a natural for Condoleezza Rice, as was Sean Penn for Clint Eastwood. (Sean the writer is no less a perfectionist than Sean the actor.) Donald Trump, who wrote about Martha Stewart, argued with us over a comma via telephone from his limo, pointing out that "I've written three best sellers...
...Lisa Marie Presley on Etheridge and the Rev. Billy Graham on John Stott, are surprisingly personal. Among my other favorites: Russell Simmons on Jay-Z; Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman on the show's creator, Marc Cherry; Bono on his good friend Jeffrey Sachs; and Tom Brokaw on Jon Stewart. Even political foes can make a good pair. James Carville on Karl Rove, anyone...