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...longer European jumping courses and hardly at home in the Garden, nonetheless was superbly mounted on his big chestnut Olympic horse, Ali Baba. Steinkraus was teamed up with an amazingly old (19) brown gelding named Democrat, a retired cavalry horse from the old Army Remount Service at Fort Riley, Kans. and a jumper of legendary prowess at many another U.S. horse show...
...already dedicated to a lifetime of playing Dixie on the human spine, slim, soft-spoken Victor Meyers gave little thought to worldly matters during 1921; at that point he was about to graduate from the Riley School of Chiropractic in Washington, D.C., and to go forth seeking his first sacroiliac. Consequently, when a fraternity brother named Bert offered to wise him up, he listened appreciatively. "You ought to move to Virginia," said Bert. "They don't pay any federal taxes over there. You only have to pay 'em if you live in the District or work...
...final event, horseback riding over a 4,000-meter course and 25 jumps, was one of Troy's specialties. McArthur, a fledgling rider, finished a surprising fourth. Troy never even finished. His mount, like McArthur's, was an aged, retired Army nag borrowed from Fort Riley, Kans. because the U.S. Military Academy has none of its own. Troy's horse got halfway around the course and fell in a dead faint from the exertion...
...motor industry: Viscount Nuffield, head of Morris, and Leonard P. Lord, boss of Austin. When Lord brought out a new Austin for the export trade, Nuffield retaliated with the popular-priced Wolseley. When Lord introduced two bigger models, Nuffield struck back with the sporty M.G. and the sleek Riley. No sooner did Lord start pushing Austin's two-seat convertible than Nuffield brought out a new Morris Minor. (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). But since Lord had been Nuffield's right-hand man and close friend for years before joining Austin, the competition was always friendly...
...Peter Hill (Dunster) T 19 Anthony Van Wye (Dunster) T 20 Frank Leahy (Winthrop) T 21 Fred Davis (Winthrop) T 22 Hanson Reynolds (Kirkland) G 23 Andrew Ichiti (Dunster) G 24 William Glazier (Winthrop) G 25 George Chase (Winthrop) G 26 William Frank (Winthrop) G 27 John Riley (Winthrop) G 28 John Altmeyer (Dudley) C 29 Ed Cohen (Dunster) C 30 Robert Knauss (Winthrop) C 31 John Tangen (Kirkland) HB 32 Joseph Broldo (Kirkland) HB 33 Arthur Levy (Kirkland) HB 34 Charles Collins (Dudley) HB 35 Bob Smith (Dunster) HB 36 Fred Koch (Dunster) HB 37 Mark Noble (Dunster...