Word: sportsmans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest. Poetry is the spiritual enjoyment of what one understands. I wrote my tale of the Fox because I felt deeply the beauty and the life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass., but shares the Mastership of the Cattistock Hunt with Parson Milne. He is at present the only...
...Corp. delivered to the Army its bid for fulfillment of that plan: a "cleaned up" Lockheed with new landing gear devoid of all but two exposed struts; a cowled Wasp engine with supercharger. Speed claimed: 210 m.p.h.- "fastest transport plane in the world." To Commander Glen Kidston, rich British sportsman, Detroit Aircraft was to ship this week "the most expensive single- motored plane ever built in the U. S."-a special Lockheed, price $36,000-for "commuting" between Commander Kidston's London home and his plantations near Mount Kenya, Africa...
Died. Gifford Alexander Cochran, 50, sportsman, onetime president of Alexander Smith & Sons, Yonkers, N. Y. carpet manufacturers; of hardening of the arteries, heart disease and acute alcoholism; in Manhattan. Retired from business, he was 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...
...confused with the late Henry Payne Whitney of Long Island and Manhattan, financier-sportsman (TIME...
...true that Mr. Grey was refused a permit to hunt bears out of season (TIME, Nov. 3). And why not? Should he be granted special privilege because he is Zane Grey? The government of our country is not founded on such basis. Realizing this, Mr. Grey, true sportsman that he is, has reconsidered his decision to leave Arizona...