Word: polo
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire, with a summer home in Connecticut, cabin cruiser, polo ponies. By his acquired enthusiasm for polo, Publisher Quigley was impelled to back Editor Peter Vischer in starting Polo magazine, which he subsequently sold to Harper & Bros. (TIME, May 19). Also he publishes the smart fortnightly Chicagoan, which not long ago "turned the corner...
...represent Virginia next fall at Oxford. Harley graduated last year from Lehigh University, and is now doing graduate work in English. Hayes was in the Class of 1930 at Yale, and Pettigrove graduated the same year from Bowdoin College. Among Holden's activities as an undergraduate are listed University polo and the position of Treasurer of the Dramatic Club. In his Freshman year he was on the debating and dramatic clubs; last year he was manager of the Cercle Francais and one of the nominees for Rhodes Scholar for the year...
...famed as the owner of many a great horse. In 1925 his Coventry and Flying Ebony (Earl Sande up) won two great races, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby. In the past year his string (including Epithet, The Beasel, Flying Heels) won $147,920. In racing and in polo he was an associate of the late Harry Payne Whitney (TIME, Nov. 3). Afflicted last year with tuberculosis, he was reported cured, was found dead alone in the vestibule of his apartment early one morning last week...
Saturday evening in the Commonwealth Armory the combined forces of the Jayvee and Freshman polo teams succeeded in downing the Norwich trio by a 10 to 6 count. The Freshman outfit, consisting of Captain L. S. Dillingham, P. S. Shaw, and W. C. McGuckin, were largely responsible for the Crimson triumph...
...following polo schedules for the remainder of the indoor season have been approved by the committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, it was announced last night...