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...after Hooper's 22-year reign, real estate was rarely acquired; and today it makes up but one percent of the portfolio. One of the disadvantages of this type of holding is the difficulty of disposal. For over 50 years, the school has owned Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor, and the best Cabot has been able to do is to lease it for 999 years for a total...
...after Hooper's 22-year reign, real estate was rarely acquired, and today it makes up but one percent of the portfolio. One of the disadvantages of this type of holding is the difficulty of disposal. For over 50 years, the school has owned Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor, and the best Cabot has been able to do is to lease it for 999 years for a total...
...First World War Britain had smartened up considerably. Now it was Germany's turn to produce the military dunces. How low the Prussian intelligence could sink was clearly demonstrated in the Gary Cooper epic Sergeant York. First, the gangling backwoods bumpkin captured a troop of Germans, mostly by making turkey-calling noises, then picking off the heads that popped up to investigate the ruckus...
Backbone of America is a comedy containing such familiar Broadway ingredients as the hard-as-nails career girl (actually, she is soft as butter inside), the aspiring author who must write advertising copy instead of novels, and a country bumpkin who proves to have more intelligence and integrity than the city slickers. Along the way. Sherwood pokes some gentle fun at television itself and at the giveaway psychology of U.S. advertising...
...racing public at night in big, new floodlighted tracks, and built up to a major sporting enterprise. Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S. With so much money and public interest, it was almost inevitable that the bumpkin sport would catch the eye of big-city racketeers. Last week in New York, as a major harness-racing scandal unfolded, Governor Thomas E. Dewey ordered an investigation of racketeering at the raceways...