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...president of the American Fur Co., Astor ruled the closest thing to a private empire ever established in America. Most of the fur-trading tribes -the Winnebagos, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Sioux-were in perpetual hock to him, and they had a habit of going into battle with medals bearing his likeness strung about their necks. Astor's puffy face, in fact, was thought to be a more powerful talisman than a scalp or even a medicine bonnet...
Even if current advertisers remain loyal, Curtis can ill afford such whopping penalties. In its struggle for survival, the publishing house, which traces its lineage to Ben Franklin, has lost ground. It is now $30.5 million in hock -most of that in short-term notes that fell due in mid-August; payment has been postponed by the possibility that Curtis may interest a group of banks in refinancing the company's debts. Revenue has plummeted from $260 million in 1960 to $205 million last year-and the figures are still falling...
...Next he sent her-and a nurse she hired-to El Paso; the baby, explained Means, was being held in Mexico, and he himself had actually seen the child. But in El Paso, Means told her that the kidnapers now wanted an additional $35,000. When she tried to hock some of her jewels, her friends became suspicious and warned her that she was being taken...
...over our ground . . . Through the midst of the storm of screaming and exploding shells, an ambulance, driven by its frenzied conductor at full speed, presented to all of us the marvellous spectacle of a horse going rapidly on three legs. A hinder one had been shot off at the hock . . ." How You Are Envied. "Then there was a lull, and we knew that the rebel infantry was charging. And splendidly they did this work-the highest and severest test of the stuff that soldiers are made of. Hill's division . . . and Longstreet's came as the support...
When Britain's Prince Philip and his daughter. Princess Anne, 12, clambered out of their raspberry-pink royal plane at Frankfurt last week, there were no top hatted officials to welcome them or respectful crowds cheering "Es lebe hock!" After greeting their waiting cousins, Prince Ludwig and Princess Margaret von Hessen, Philip and Anne got quickly into the rakish Alvis sports coupe, which had been flown ahead of the royal party from London. Then they headed down the Autobahn to Darmstadt, where they stayed at the Von null palatial 18th century Schloss Wolfsgarten...