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...fancier paid $4,000 for a dog and then imported him to a country where, in a dog population of some 2,000,000, there were only 500 other specimens of his breed, what could he do to make his purchase worth its price? Faced with this problem last month when he arrived in Manhattan to meet his Boxer Dorian von Marienhof, Fancier John P. Wagner of Milwaukee proceeded shrewdly. He incorporated Boxer von Marienhof for $4,000, began selling stock at $1 a share. First buyer was Boxer Jack Dempsey, who took ten shares...
Last week in Milwaukee Fancier Wagner, head of Dorian von Marienhof of Mazelaine, Inc., announced that his company had sold 1,000 shares to 200 shareholders, most of them apparently persons who felt that by helping to publicize Boxer von Marienhof, they might also help to publicize themselves. Among them were Dancer Sally Rand, Comedian Jack Pearl, Song Writer George Whiting. Fancier Wagner said he expected stud fees and show winnings to pay stockholders a 100% dividend...
...This, far from spoiling the sport of harness racing, has acted as a stimulus, by removing all its stigma of utility. Always popular in rural communities, harness racing lost favor in Eastern cities in the years following the War. In 1926, William H. Cane, a rich contractor and trotting fancier of Goshen, helped promote the first Hambletonian, named for the famed sire of 95% of U. S. harness racers, for the undreamed of purse of $73,000. The Hambletonian, which promptly became the Kentucky Derby of trotting, has lately caused an astonishing revival of the sport. Last year there were...
...Strawbridges who, as sons of the founders, own most of the stock, carry on family traditions. Morris Lewis Clothier is chairman of the board, a benefactor of the Quaker colleges Swarthmore and Haverford. His brother, Isaac H. Clothier, vice president, is famed as a sportsman and horse fancier. (Their cousin, Robert C. Clothier, who did not go into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director, retired from active business some years ago as did jovial, sandy-haired Frederic...
...every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman...