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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For the second successive year, the U.S. played host while only foreign military teams won glory in the arena. Since the 1948 Olympic Games, the U.S. Army has given up training an equestrian team. For brilliant competitive horsemanship the audience had to look to teams from countries where the military...
On the fourth night, Carabineros Captain Oscar Cristi of Chile finally broke Mexico's winning streak. He finished the twisting, eleven-jump course in 37 seconds. 2.9 seconds less than Colonel Mariles' time, and copped the West Point Challenge Trophy. Two nights later, Captain Michael Tubridy, of the...
Their youngest teammate, 18-year-old Lieut. Joaquin D'Harcourt had yet to win an individual victory at the Garden. His chance came in the jump-off for the International Military Special Challenge Trophy, when two Chileans faulted. That left only four competitors for the trophy-all members of...
Captain Edward Molyneux, Paris fashion expert, announced without any reticence that he would use his visit to buy clothes fashioned in this country. He planned to pick up a few functional resort and play fashions and take them back to his Paris salon to adapt them for the continental trade...
After deep thought, Hollywood Art Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava...