Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting bald), the madness. Dick Rodgers lives with his attractive wife in a duplex apartment in Manhattan's swanky East 77th Street, summers at smart Sands Point, Long Island, gives formal dinner parties, draws a bid to the famed Charles Shipman Paysons' (the former Joan Whitney) Fourth of July parties, hobnobs with socialite Margaret Emerson, the Herbert Bayard Swopes, Noel Coward...
...trophy, the U. S. Open polo championship, played at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club last week, took on added importance. Facing one another in the final were two of the best teams this generation of polo enthusiasts has ever seen. One was Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Old Westbury four, last year's winner. The other was Greentree, last year's runner-up, backed by his cousin, John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Old Westbury had two of the three ten-goalers in the U. S.: tactical Yaleman Stewart Iglehart and hard-riding Cowboy Cecil Smith. Greentree...
Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...
When word swept around that Old Westbury's young Mike Phipps, playing at No. 1, had come onto the field, directly from a doctor's office, with his mallet wrist strapped to keep a loose tendon in place, it looked bad for Sonny Whitney's side. A few moments later it looked even worse when Sonny was cracked on the forehead by Cousin Jock's mallet, carried to a first aid tent to have the gash stitched together. But, like most poloists who refuse to be downed unless they are out, Westbury's Back...
...some partners and some peat, contracted with 32-year-old Giles Wetherill to distribute his product. For several years the Wetherill family have marketed Hyper-Humus, a New Jersey peat older than Silber's Maine variety by a mere 10,000,000 years. Day before Richard Whitney went to jail he offered Giles Wetherill his near-defunct Florida Humus Co. ''for the price of a good automobile"; but Wetherill said he wanted peat bogs, not lawsuits. Humus has sold a piddling 10,000 tons per year, has nevertheless made a small profit since 1934. American Peat...