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  Great Lady of a Grand Era 
By Laura Rollins Hockaday
(A Member of The Star’s Staff)

          When the new Madison Square Garden opens this winter on the site of New York’s old Pennsylvania station, it will have a Hall of Fame honoring 88 outstanding competitors – two from every sport performed in the present Garden.

          Of the two names entered to represent the National Horse show, an annual event at the Garden, one is as familiar to Kansas Citians as to those who have heard it heralded in show rings of the U.

S. and Canada – Loula Long Combs.

          When the renowned competitor was announced, the audience was ready.  Hers was the name they had come to hear and belonged to the person they’d come to see.  The crowd was always with her – not just because sh