Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over Buenos Aires, flags waved and banners proclaimed a welcome to Olympic visitors. But even the star performers in the first Pan-American Olympic games-to be held at 21 different sites, from the light opera theater (weightlifting) to the Campo de Mayo military post (equestrian sports)-could not get top billing last week over the two champion hurdlers of Argentine politics, Juan and Eva Peron...
...without any trained riding teams to enter in international jumping competitions, so for two seasons, U.S. riders watched cavalry teams from Mexico, Britain, France, Ireland, Chile and Canada jump off with all the prizes at the U.S.'s own National Horse Show. This year the International Equestrian Federation came to the rescue by ruling that civilians are just as eligible for international competitions as cavalrymen. Accordingly, as the 1950 horse show opened in Madison Square Garden last week, the U.S. was back in the saddle again...
...major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...made one formal public appearance in Independence to dedicate a five-foot, bronze equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson which he had presented to Jackson County. The statue-a model of a larger one which Truman had commissioned for the Kansas City courthouse when he was a county judge-had been given to him by Sculptor Charles Keck in 1934. Harry Truman had been unable to use it or give it away, and it had languished in Keek's studio for 15 years. But as a gift from a President it had become eminently acceptable and last week a crowd...