Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where she was to present the new Presidential Challenge Cup) only to find that Washington's 1961 International Horse Show had already been stolen by her sister-in-law, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 32. Fifteen years and seven babies beyond the days when she was the scourge of the equestrian East, the dark-eyed, dervish-like wife of the Attorney General had at the last minute daringly borrowed riding ensemble and steed to enter the conformation hunters competition. But after skimming seven barriers with surprisingly unrusty gait, she clipped the top pole of the next one, saw her outsized derby...
...made in the early 1800s to decorate the city waterworks, and it consisted of wooden figures by William Rush, the famous carver of ships' figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President Garfield. There was a mounted George Washington said to be the largest bronze...
Died. Edwin King Daly, 63, president since 1936 of Horn & Hardart Co.'s Automat restaurants, active Catholic layman who was made a Knight of Malta and Knight Commander of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem by Pope Pius XII; of a heart attack; in Bryn Mawr...
Britain's National Gallery last week announced the purchase of a huge and handsome Rembrandt for upwards of $400,000. An equestrian portrait, 8 by 10 ft., the canvas had already been whisked off to the gallery laboratories for the tricky and controversial business of cleaning and re-lining, would not be shown to the public for some months. Gallery Director Sir Philip Hendy was exuberantly frank about his purchase: "Much the grandest Rembrandt we have...