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At the news last week, oilmen from five states made a beeline for Pollard, looked at their reflections in the pool of oil (see cut), and frantically began bidding for leases. Overnight, leases shot up from $2.50 a year per acre to as high as $50. On the New York...
"Pretty, witty Nell" soon became a fine comedian, caused such an uproar with her sallies and such a sensation with her "neat silk leg and pair of holland thighs" that half of the Restoration bucks were bidding for her favors. Hart sold her to Lord Buckhurst, but Nelly didn'...
Wrong Buss. In Cairo, bidding farewell to his sweetheart, Moustafa Ibrahim, 16, kissed the pane of her train window, was fined $14 by a Moslem court for committing an "indecent public act."
-As the first Government witness in the year-long antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Railroad Magnate Robert R. Young was in a saucy mood. Taking the stand to argue that competitive bidding on railroad bonds should be compulsory, Young last week fixed a cross...
Princeton, like most of the Ivy League, is short of football material for the simple reason that it is not a competitive bidder in the football market. Under a "Big Three" agreement Harvard, Yale and Princeton exchange information on all their varsity football players. Competitive bidding, in the form of...