Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, although he had played erratic polo through the first periods (unlike Tommy Hitchcock, Winston Guest, Malcolm Stevenson) William Averill Harriman became the hero of the exciting encounter. He had been placed upon the team late in the season, in the series of revisions which made the Argentines, who reached their peak the week before the matches, the favorites. If the U. S. four had failed to win, their forward would certainly have received the blame; just as certainly their victory was due to his abruptly brilliant play in the last period...
Engaged. Ellen Borden of Chicago, daughter of John Borden, famed Arctic explorer, big game hunter and rancher; to Adlai Stevenson of Bloomington, Ill., grandson of Adlai E. Stevenson, U. S. Vice President during the Cleveland administration...
Heeding well the results of practice matches, the defense committee of the U. S. Polo Association changed the line-up of the U. S. team just five days before the first game with the Argentines. Young Winston Guest and Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford were selected to play with veterans Malcolm Stevenson and Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Meanwhile the Argentines were reaching top form...
Rubber. The British Stevenson Act controlling the production of rubber in the Orient expires Nov. 1. London despatches last week reported British and Dutch rubber plantation owners, who control the world's present output, conferring to form a private group to restrict rubber production, to create an artificial shortage, to shove prices...
...display include the "Royal Book," printed by William Caxton, the first English printer: the first English edition of "King Arthur and the Round Table," printed in 1557: and the Countess of Pembroke's own copy of Sir Philip Sidney's "Arcadia." Original manuscripts of Burns, Dickens, Lamb, and Stevenson, complete the collection...