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...wages) for his 2,000-odd employees, and transformed his home town by giving it, among other things, 14 schools, an auditorium and an airport. Twice widowed, he was a gloomy, awkwardly bashful man, with no social life to speak of, and one main diversion: breeding Arabian steeds (including Jadaan, ridden by Rudolph Valentino in Son of the Sheik...
...Gallery gave its second floor over to animal Society. The Society portraitist was pretty, petite, 28-year-old June Harrah, who sculps likenesses of champion dogs and race horses for the doggy and horsy set. Sculptress Harrah's deft statuettes (of such equestrian nobility as Seabiscuit, Challedon and Jadaan, the grey stallion ridden by the late Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also likes animals better than people...
...Shelif's ancestry followed (TIME, Sept. 2, 1929 et seq.). Many Kellogg horses have been sired at Baroness Wentworth's stud in England, including Raseyn, a 7-year-old whose sire Skowronek narrowly escaped being hanged as a royalist in the Russian revolution. Other famed Kellogg horses: Jadaan, who carried the late great Rudolph Valentino on his cinematic sheiking expeditions; Pep and Rossika, trick horses; King John, said to be the only desert-bred Arabian...