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Other Arden horses to watch are Harvey's Pal ("The play Harvey was such a good show"), Blue Gem ("Oh, he's so beautiful; he has eyes of blue") and the $46,000 yearling Colony Boy, named for Manhattan's famed Colony Restaurant. Still another is Knockdown, which placed second in last week's Arlington Futurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beauty & Pleasure | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Next to winning, John J. McGraw liked feuding. During his 30 years as manager, his rough, tough, smart New York Giants won ten National League pennants and seldom finished out of the first-division money. Knockdown, drag-out feuds brightened most of those 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Everybody's Ballplayer | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...ambitious manufacturer who can use 5,052,177 sq. ft. of floor space and does not mind operating an unhandily located plant should apply to the Defense Plant Corp. The chances are that DPC will be glad to sell its $100-million plant at Willow Run, Mich., at a knockdown price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Sale or Lease | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...bbls.) than ten tankers could lug to Alaska. This week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: End of Canol | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., Spyros Panajotis Skouras, 51. Three months ago muscular Tycoon Skouras flew to England to see Tycoon Rank. With him Spyros Skouras carried the worries of Hollywood about Cinemagnate Rank. Was Mr. Rank willing to come to terms, or was he getting ready for a knockdown, drag-out fight for a chunk of Hollywood's world monopoly? Last week persuasive Mr. Skouras clippered back to Manhattan. In his pocket was the deal with Rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Hands Across the Sea | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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