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...slithered into a ditch and he arrived late. When he entered the Royal Box, the King, without a single detective to watch him while he watched the race, congratulated him on not being hurt, raised his glasses to follow the parade to the post. At the start. Lord Dewar's Medieval Knight got the lead, held it for a mile. The Maharajah of Rajpipla who bought Windsor Lad as a yearling for ?1.300 and who had made Derby Day a holiday on his estate at Old Windsor, watched his horse and smiled. At the head of the stretch...
...after the late Sir John Dewar bought Raeburn's sturdy Highland portrait The M'Nab for ?25.410, his canny Scot mind was beset by doubts concerning his investment. To bolster its value he decided to use reproductions of the famed picture on advertisements of his famed whiskey. The M'Nab now hangs in the Dewar London Office, is occasionally shown to the public...
Last week. Lord Dewar's nephew, John Arthur Dewar, who inherited his wealth, proved himself also his uncle's heir in the matter of Raeburns. At a Christie's auction in London he bid ?11,025 ($56,337.75) for a Raeburn portrait of two young brothers named Allen. Another, lesser Raeburn was sold in 30 seconds also to Mr. Dewar, for ?4,620 ($23,608.20). A Romney went for $25.217.85. The Raeburn portrait of the Allen brothers brought the top price in London's biggest art sale since Depression...
...hurdle is a $5-a-gallon tariff which will probably be upped to stimulate domestic grain consumption. DCL, like Bacardi, has taken its time about the U. S. market, has kept liquormen with their tongues hanging out over who was to sell Johnny Walker, Haig & Haig, Dewar and Gordon gin. The assignment of only two brands was definitely known so late as last week: Black & White to National Distillers and Johnny Walker to Canada...
...belated position on the stampede line became apparent when General Foods Corp., which had previously notified stockholders explicitly that it was not going into the liquor business, called a directors' meeting for this midweek to vote on a liquor affiliate. Mc-Callum's Perfection, Haig & Haig and Dewar's Scotch were the chief whiskeys in General Foods' eye, and also Gordon's Gin. The last was a cause for much debate and speculation. The importing company that had Gordon's in the old days had come sufficiently to life to give DCL legal pause...