Word: vischer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down below looms the mighty Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, covered with intricate sculptures. Peter Vischer's Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...
...Mars's Milky Way stable won a total of $206,450. Alfred Vanderbilt was second with $159,545. When the year started, young Mr. Vanderbilt was considered likely to repeat his record of 1935 as leading money winner. In an article published by Peter Vischer's Horse & Horseman, Turfman Vanderbilt last month related some of the reasons why he failed...
...PETER VISCHER...
...editor and business manager of Trend have helpful connections. Publisher Peter Vischer of Polo is the brother-in-law of Editor Frederick Guyn ("Fritz") Brownell, onetime general manager of the Washingtonian and editor of Buffalo Town Tidings. Adman Albert Davis Lasker is cousin to Business Manager Eugene Meier Warner. Money from Warners, Schoellkopfs and other rich & prominent Buffalonians will tide the enterprise over until the promoters decide whether they will accept advertisements, add another four pages. Five advts, claimed Trend, had already been turned down...
...accident policy's values for injuries incurred at games or in the hunting field. A man who admits that he plays polo constantly, rides to hounds, steeplechases or drives a racing motorboat, is lucky to get a policy at all. Three years ago it occurred to smart Peter Vischer, editor of Polo, that insurance specially intended for sportsmen would be popular. Three of his friends-Charles Miner of the Litchfield County Hunt, Reginald C. M. Peirce, who played polo for Squadron A in Manhattan, and Capt. Carl B. Searing, retired, of the Army-organized Sportsmans Mutual Assurance...