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...Harvard National Scholarships, the scholarship stipend, once merely the difference between resources and expenses, became a bid for talent as college administrators started competing for future "Who's Who" candidates. Financial need became secondary during an abusive competition for future success. Like middle aged ladies at an auction, the schools matched bid against bid for promising prizes. Highly sought high school seniors could almost sit back and take their choice of the bids, while needier classmates, also college material, had all too often to be content with an acceptance but no stipend from a college which had already exhausted...
...Century-Fox) can possibly be explained as an attempt to present the Iliad in modern dress-dungarees, that is. The Greeks of the epic are the sponge fishermen of Tarpon Springs, Fla. The Trojans are the "Conchs," their Anglo-Saxon counterparts in Key West. After newsreeling through a sponge auction and a Greek Orthodox Epiphany, including the inevitable shot of Greek youths diving for a gold cross, the picture at last shows a little fight...
...money over to her family, hard hit by the drought. At Chicago last week, Hotelman Albert Pick bid $20 a lb. for Sue's steer, highest price ever paid at the Chicago show.* Sue, who paid $189 for the calf, grossed $21,445 ($20,100 in the auction, $1,345 m prizes). Probable...
Facing an inheritance-tax bite of an estimated $750,000 to $1,000,000 on his late wife's estate, Bing Crosby bowed out of racing to raise some hard cash. Of his 65 race horses put up for auction in Hollywood, 58 were sold in two days for $85,000, which Crosby will split with his partner, Sportsman Lin Howard. Under California's community property law, Mrs Crosby owned half of Bing's vast holdings (oil, real estate, frozen juice), putting him in the position of paying federal and state inheritance taxes on property...
Lady Mary Catherine was the last of her branch of an 800-year-old line, and after she died last winter her collection went up for auction. By common consent most big dealers withheld their bids, and when the auctioneer's hammer fell for the last time, Detroit owned Sassetta's prized Agony for a bargain $25,000. The institute could hardly believe its good luck at bringing together three pictures that had been separated for centuries. Said Assistant Director Paul L. Grigaut: "Both English and American dealers were very cricket about it. Our biggest trouble was getting...