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Died. William James Tatem, Lord Glanely, 74, Welsh shipping tycoon, famed breeder and racer of horses; killed by a German bomb; in a southwest English coast town. He founded one of the world's greatest stud farms, at Exning, once had more horses in training than the Aga Khan and Lord Derby, won more than 500 races. His Grand Parade won the Derby...
...Bell's death in 1922 his son-in-law, Plant Explorer David Fairchild, turned the flock over to Professor Ernest Ritzman of the University of New Hampshire, an expert breeder who had already developed a superior type of sheep combining the better features of fine-wooled Rambouillets and meaty Southdowns. Since Bell's sheep, for all their twins and nipples, were neither very meaty nor very fleecy, Ritzman began crossing the two unusual stocks. At last years end his work was finished, and his retirement neared, so he turned the flock over to Federal stock breeders at Middlebury...
...Rauschning (The Revolution of Nihilism}. Not a Junker, but "a distant connection of most of the Junker families of East Prussia," Rauschning ran "a medium-sized farm of not quite 250 acres" near Danzig, stepped up its sugar-beet and flax yield by intensive cultivation. Believing that "the breeder is a co-creator and an ennobler of nature," he raised purebred horses and heifers. Believing in "the full quiver," he sired eight children, lost three...
...Lucky Baldwin, James B. Haggin and Leland Stanford-California was second only to Kentucky in the business of breeding horses. Every summer, Breeder Haggin used to ship 300 thoroughbreds to the Saratoga yearling sales. When public indignation against gambling outlawed racing in California, its stud farms went to rack & ruin. With racing's revival in 1935, thoroughbred breeding became more than an industry, it became a mania...
Died. Mrs. Elizabeth Cromwell Bosley, 45. foremost U. S. woman horse trainer, breeder of unbeaten Chase Me, who this year took over the big racing string owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Graham Lewis (Elizabeth Arden); when her car left the road, crashed into a tree; near Baltimore...