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Last week Founder-President Floyd Bostwick Odium mailed to 46,000 stockholders a report revealing that their company, now simply Atlas Corp., was the largest investment trust in the U. S. with $121,000,000 in assets. Dearer to the hearts of the stockholders was the fact that in the process of gobbling up a score of other trusts during the past four years, President Odium had more than doubled the asset value of their shares. At the turn of the year Atlas stock had a net asset value of $11.02 a share, compared with...
Riding in a drag hunt near her estate at Aiken, S. C. was U. S. polo's gallant, white-haired Matriarch Louise Eustis Hitchcock, 68, mother of "Tommy" Hitchcock Jr., longtime No. i U. S. poloist, aunt of George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick, No. 1 U. S. steeplechaser. Hot on the trail of her baying beagles. Matriarch Hitchcock urged her mount to a stiff hurdle, was catapulted to earth when it faltered and fell. Fully conscious, she was carried to her home, where doctors found that two broken neck vertebrae had partly paralyzed her right arm, completely paralyzed her right...
...cinch," boasted Manager Naylor. A moment later Naylor groaned in dismay. Winooka, instead of being out in front, was third at the quarter pole, and his trainers knew he was beaten. Jockey Edgar Britt, an apprentice, seemed to be frozen by stage fright. At the last turn Albert C. Bostwick's Mate, a 4-to-1 shot, cut in front of him from the outside, charged down the stretch to win. Winooka dropped back steadily, finished nine lengths behind. Ugly jeers greeted Jockey Britt as he unsaddled, trudged miserably to the scales...
...they wore. Bookmakers found their early favorite in extremely horsey Mrs. "Jock" Whitney, although to make it more of a race she had refrained from entering one of her swiftest mounts. Then it was revealed that beauteous Mrs. "Sonny" Whitney would ride Halcyon, and Mrs. Rigan Mc-Kinney "Pete" Bostwick's Pompeius - both stake-winners. Mrs. "Jock" Whitney was astonished and so were the bookies, who promptly set her down as a 5-to-1 shot, made Pompeius and Halcyon favorites. The start of the race decided its finish. Away at the barrier shot a bay gelding named Debenture...
...stewards of the New York Jockey Club tackled a nasty job last week at Jamaica, L. I. A race had been won by a horse named Garden Message, owned by George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick. the country's No. 1 gentleman-jockey. After the race the track veterinary found a sponge in the nose of Sweeping Light, which had finished third. Then the doctor examined Garden Message, voiced the shocking opinion that the Bostwick horse had been stimulated for the race. Garden Message's trainer stoutly denied it. For Owner Bostwick, who was honeymooning abroad, his friends protested bitterly...