Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Seven years ago horse racing was a summer sport. But since the opening of California's Santa Anita Park and its $100,000 Handicap, winter racing has attracted all the top-notch U. S. stables, most of their top-notch thoroughbreds. Santa Anita's opening, on the Saturday after Christmas, has become as red-letter a date on the U. S. racing calendar as the opening of Belmont, Pimlico or Saratoga. Santa Anita, despite its rich purses, has not had the winter field to itself. Florida's Hialeah Park, with its $50,000 Widener Cup race, gets...
...There is a natural affinity between sport and book collecting. . . . The joys of the chase and the exultation in achievement after an arduous hunt, whether of fox, pheasant or folio, have much in common." Thus graciously the Grolier Club last week mixed foxes and folios in an exhibit of members' sporting books and prints in its Manhattan clubhouse. Within its print-hung, paneled walls, smelling of old leather bindings and armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded...
...authority on fox hunting, author of Just Hunting (1936); 3) inspirer of the national enthusiasm for Currier & Ives, owner of some 15,000 of their prints, author of four scholarly tomes on antique U. S. lithographs; 4) owner of perhaps the world's best private library of sporting books and prints; 5) promoter of a unique theory: art is more indebted to sport than to religion. Sportsman-Bibliophile Peters has lectured on his thesis at Manhattan's great Metropolitan Museum...
Disguising Raiders is a favorite sport of the Germans. Ashore in Manhattan last week was Captain Cornelius Arundele, master of the freighter Haxby, which a German raider sank off Bermuda last April. He spent 64 days aboard the enemy as a prisoner. In that time he saw her fly the Greek, Brazilian and Dutch flags. Of "much more than 10,000 tons," she had a telescopic funnel and a lot of light steel plates which she shifted like scenery, to change her silhouette from day to day. Her superstructure was repeatedly repainted. Provisioned to cruise three years, she had slipped...
...York box salesman, a Chicago doctor, a United Air Lines pilot, a Texas polo player, 46 other assorted U. S. citizens gathered in Los Angeles last week to ply their common sport. They were all "spindizzies." Three years ago spindizzy was unknown to the U. S. vernacular. Then Los Angeles' Dooling brothers (Tom, Russ and Hank), who were model-airplane buffs, began to experiment with model autos. They built a miniature automobile, not much larger than a milk bottle, to fit over one of their tiny, ¼-h.p. internal-combustion airplane engines, tied one end of a piece...