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...ring. Aberdeen Anguses have won nine international shows, more than any other breed. Jimmy's owner is Banker J. Frank McKenny of King City, Mo. whose herdsman is Elliott Brown's uncle. There was no chicanery about Jimmy's championship. He was sold for beef at auction to the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, for $2,700, or $2.50 per Ib. (Last year's prizewinner was bought by Chainstoreman James Cash Penney...
...sole rival in the morning field. To the casual reader of the announcement the "purchase" might have been effected the day before. Actually it took place in 1911 when a representative of the late famed John R. McLean, founder and publisher of the Enquirer, paid $420,000 at private auction for the limping Commercial Tribune. For two decades the McLean interests operated both papers, strategically covering the adherents of both major parties. Also there was another, probably stronger motive for keeping the Commercial Tribune alive: its presence served to protect the thriving Enquirer against invasion of the morning field...
...announcement that the Fogg Museum is to receive an art collection which includes portraits by such old masters as Rembrandt, Hals, Murillo, and El Greco is most welcome. Usually, when rare items are offered at public auction the large metropolitan museums are able to outbid their less affluent collegiate competitors, so Harvard is to be considered fortunate in gaining so fine a legacy, which otherwise might never have found its way to Cambridge. The true significance of the gift lies not alone in the intrinsic value of the objects themselves, but in the mode of presentation. The will stipulates that...
Farmer Caldwell. Last week Rogers Clark Caldwell commented on the situation his difficulty had started. Undismayed, he said to the St. Louis Star: "Everything happens for the best." He said he plans to auction his famed stables, retire. He explained, "The trouble is that modern business has been bottomed on paper values and they are being swept away." His remedy: "We must get back to fundamentals." He plans to become a farmer...
...National bridge tournament sponsored by the American Bridge League; at Cleveland. Contested championships: mixed pair auction, men's & women's pair auction, men's & women's team-of-four auction, contract pair & team-of-four...