Word: cavalryman
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...feet up an observation tower (puffed Ike's physician, Major General Howard Snyder, who trailed them: "They're giving my patient a workout. He'll probably be criticized by the doctors"). Together the old soldiers studied rolling terrain to the northeast where Confederate Cavalryman Jeb Stuart maneuvered (on the way down from Carlisle) ineffectually while the battle raged. "Lee was let down by Stuart," said Ike in disapproval. "What beat Stuart was his love of headlines." Montgomery was visibly unimpressed by Confederate attempts to crack the Union right at the hill. "I shouldn't have fought...
...expatriate Hungarian cavalryman who ran a Long Island livery stable, Jerkens has spent most of his life around horses, was only 15 when he bought his first mount, an unfashionable, sore-legged colt named Crack Time. He spent long, cold months patching up his purchase and galloping the horse through the snow. By the time racing started at Aqueduct, Crack Time was ready. The cheap colt won $12,615 before it was lost in a $10,000 claiming race...
...Augustus Frederick William Alfred George ("Algie") Cambridge, Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trematon, 82, onetime governor-general of South Africa (1923-30) and Canada (1940-46), last surviving brother of the late Queen Mary and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II; in Kensington Palace, London. An erect, mustached ex-cavalryman (India, the Boer War, World War I) who looked and acted like the prototype of Britain's foxhunting, elephant-shooting old regimentals, the Earl of Athlone served as aide-de-camp to King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, officiated at countless cornerstone-layings...
...Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel, were the work of a little-known Eastern Jewish writer who disappeared, probably into a Russian concentration camp, in the late 1930s. An intellectual who fought as a cavalryman for the Bolsheviks, Babel wrote with extraordinary power and vividness about ghetto life and the brutality of revolution...
...movie needs all the publicity help it can get. Jimmy is a U.S. cavalryman burning to avenge his brother, slain by the Apaches. Disguising himself as the bossman of a mule train, he sets out for a small town on the edge of Apacheland and, unloading his merchandise, moves out to some nearby salt lagoons to get a cargo for his return trip. Suddenly a line of horsemen come galloping along the skyline. Apaches? No, it's a psychotic cowboy (Alex Nicol) and his henchmen. Before you can say "Oedipus complex," Nicol has galloped down the ridge, lassoed Jimmy...