Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ambiguous world, where priests were spies and gallant friends proved traitors and his country was led blundering into dishonor." In a last "symbolical act," however, Crouchback burns papers he had brought out from Crete which would have proved that his fellow aristocrat-that faultlessly bred International Equestrian Champion Ivor Claire, whom he had once thought of as "quintessential England"-had funked and fled his command. This, in the relentless author of A Handful of Dust and The Loved One, is something new. In the evolution of Evelyn Waugh, mercy appears to have arrived to season justice...
Married. Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 20, retired world tennis queen (Australia, France, England and U.S. championships in 1953) turned sports columnist (for the San Diego Union); and Norman A. Brinker, 24, San Diego State College sophomore and member of the U.S. Olympic equestrian team (1952); in San Diego...
...years the Institute doled out Ferguson's fund to adorn Chicago with a dozen statues, among them symbolic figures representing The Republic, Equestrian Indians and the most famous, Carl Milles's Fountain of the Tritons, next to the Art Institute itself. By the early '30s, city planners had begun losing their enthusiasm for heroic busts and bronzes, and the Art Institute took the precaution of getting a court to rule that "monuments" in the context of Ferguson's bequest could also mean "buildings." This year the Art Institute leaned on the old court ruling and announced...
...German victory was remarkable because World War II scattered or destroyed most German horses. But under Dr. Gustav Rau, 74, trainer of every German equestrian Olympic team since 1912, West Germany established a 30,000 member riding association. West German breeders and trainers worked patiently with whatever material they could find, achieved miracles with gentle handling. (Says Dr. Rau about Germany's Mexican rivals: "They use wires and poles to make them lift their legs. The horses learn, jä, but through fear.") Said Winner Winkler to an American newsman last week: "You have wonderful horses...
...your equestrian cover: May I be one of the thousands who will ask how many times animals have graced the cover of TIME...