Word: traversing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of...
¶ At Saratoga Springs, N.Y.. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Native Dancer, Eric Guerin up. romped, as expected (odds: 1 to 20). to his 17th victory in 18 starts, taking the $27,900, 1¼-mile Travers Stakes by 5½ lengths, in 2:05 3/5. Winner's...
MARY POPPINS IN THE PARK (235 pp.)-P. L. Travers-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).
In Mary Poppins in the Park, the century's most famous nurse-governess returns to the scene. The accent is on the word "governess," for the basic fact about Mary Poppins is that she is a Tower of Strength, a Rock of Gibraltar, a Fort Knox whose secret bullion...
Died. Jerome Dunstan Travers, 64, top golfer in the pre-Bobby Jones era, four times National Amateur champion (in 1907, '08, '12 and '13), National Open champion in 1915; of a coronary occlusion; in East Hartford, Conn.