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...chief did not know that the egg was thousands of years old, that heavy rains had washed it out of a protecting alluvial deposit, but he did suspect that the white men in the town of Ambovombe might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief and a few companions carried the egg to Ambovombe. After hours of haggling a merchant gave them five head of cattle for it. This man recognized the egg as that of the extinct Aepyornis titan or elephant bird, a long-necked creature with massive legs on which it stood ten feet...
Therefore last week the plight of a hitherto unnoticed Mme Drouard-Marquiset fascinated all prosperous French men. Secret agents had discovered in Switzerland at the Banque Commercials de Bâle a deposit in the name of Mme Drouard-Marquiset which she had omitted to disclose, as required by law. Result...
...director, James Bolivar Manson, and the former Lord Mayor of London, Sir William Waterlow, whose firm had printed the catalog. The Tate Gallery's smart lawyers quickly ap peared before the Master in Chambers and obtained an Order for Security Costs, which means that Plaintiff Utrillo must deposit a bond showing that he is able to pay the costs of the trial before his case can be heard. Even so, lawyers knowing the history of most British libel suits wagered that he had an excellent chance of collecting...
Ralph Lowell '12, of Boston, former director of the Alumni Association, and member of Clark, Dorge, and Co.; George C. Cutler '13, of Baltimore, Maryland, president of the Safe Deposit and Trust Co.; Francis C. Grant '14, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania; and Theodore Sizer '16, of New Haven, Connecticut, professor of art at Yale, and associate director of the Yale Gallery of Fine Arts...
...well-considered, charge. By the time debt-ridden MOP flopped into the courts in 1933, it had paid $3,200,000 on account for the terminal properties. On the books this was first lumped in a peculiar railroad account called "unauthorized work." Later it was carried as a "special deposit," a current asset. The funds were indeed deposited in Guaranty Trust Co. but for the benefit of Terminal Shares, not MOP. Last week the railroad's officials tried to explain that they never intended to convey the impression that the $3,200,000 current asset was ready cash. Somewhere...