Word: studs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another after-hours Rothschild passion is raising and racing horses. Britain's Evelyn and France's Edmond both breed horses on their estates. So famous are Guy's stables at Chantilly and his Deauville stud farms that during the war the Nazis delighted in crossing seized Rothschild mares with German stallions. Now Guy directs all the breeding: "I enjoy making up my mind for the matings, and then seeing the babies." His most successful match produced Exbury, winner of all five races he was entered in this year, including the world's richest cup, the Prix...
...Stud Poker. Hill intends to fight such adversity with diversity. He has branched into a blouse manufacturing firm, and a fortnight ago joined other millionaires, including Industrialist Charles Clore, in something of a stud poker game: they are starting a cattle-breeding service with a number of Friesian bulls. But despite the fact that gambling built his own fortune of $30 million, Hill has not placed a bet for nearly ten years. He figures that he would not get a kick out of it if he won, and would be very annoyed if he lost. He has even become slightly...
...Baldwinsville, N.Y., Rig-A-Jig pointed six birds in less than two hours-enough to win him $1,600 and the tenth field-trial victory of his career. With nearly 750 professional field trials in the U.S. each year, many a breeder grows wealthy on the winnings and stud fees (up to $200 a service) of his four-legged friends. Alabama's Clyde Morton, at 65 the dean of U.S. breeders, has won eleven National Bird Dog championships, sells dogs to such fanciers as former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and British Cine-mogul J. Arthur Rank, once turned down...
WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed...
WIVES AND LOVERS. A jack (Van Johnson) and two queens (Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer) make a full house in this amusing game of stud devised by Scriptwriter Edward Anhalt and Director John Rich, who for the most part play their cards very well indeed...