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...Ohio and Illinois, the local organization issued an appeal for contributions of money and clothes to aid the destitute and homeless. Harvard was very generous in its response; one undergraduate gave a check for $300, and together with the donations of less charitable or affluent colleagues, about $500 in cash and quite a few clothes were received...
...weeks their owners had trained them to handle tamely. When the judging started last week, the pigeons were taken out of their coops, examined minutely by judges, most of whom were specialists in one or two of the 300 breeds represented. To winners went ribbons, trophies and cash, furnished out of the entry fees of 50? a bird. Noteworthy entrants: ¶ Biggest bird in the show was Ramon, a giant Runt* from Dallas. For his 3? lb., he had an 18-in. body circumference, wing spread of three feet. ¶ Unhappiest breed were Parlor Tumblers. Equipped with the determination...
...fine pair of English racing homers, imported from the estate of an English fancier and bought by Charles Heinzman of Louisville. ¶ Best bird in the show was a Blue African Owl, weighing 1/2 lb., which received a fountain pen, a plaque and $11.50 in cash for being judged the best bird of his breed, the best old Owl and the best old African Owl. Had the Parlor Rollers in last week's show been capable of reversing their situation instead of themselves, they would doubtless have picked, as the best pigeon judge in the U. S., a precise...
...cumulative convertible preferred stock. Until Feb. 8, holders of Tide Water's 626,221 shares of 6% preferred will have first call on the new preferred, which unlike the old carries voting rights. They may exchange old for new on a share for share basis plus $2 in cash. Thus further discomfited in his struggle for a voice in Tide Water was Jean Paul Getty (TIME, Nov. 30), whose interest in the company (more than 25% directly and indirectly) is almost wholly in common stock, whose voting rights will be diluted by the new preferred. ¶ Proud...
They couldn't agree because they didn't trust each other. In baseball, basketball, and track it has been possible to cooperate. But when they talk of football, when the cold cash of gate receipts is threatened by mutual concessions--then "Some doubt was expressed that the establishment of a formal league would attain all the desired ends...