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...hundred fifty fans watched the first running of the Giganteus Stakes. The contestants, all 3-in.-long tropical species, sped along the track. In a photo finish, Hot to Trot II won the cup by a labrum...
That sentiment is echoed by an increasing number of exercise-minded Americans. "Twelve years ago, we didn't even have a consumer market," says Ronald Labrum, president of Centurion Sales Co. in Mountain View, Calif., which then concentrated on supplying gym equipment to institutions and apartment buildings. Now 25% of the company's customers buy for their homes. Declares Labrum: "It's probably the fastest-growing market segment we have...
...home gyms may be just the latest status symbol--"as swimming pools used to be," says Labrum--but most buyers are committed fitness buffs. Allan Sutton, 52, an investment adviser in New York City, dropped out of his health club about a year ago. "I find you give yourself a million different excuses not to go work out," he says. He spent about $1,500 converting the downstairs family room of his suburban Larchmont, N.Y., home into an exercise room, installing two stationary bikes, a rowing machine, a cross-country skiing machine, a Nautilus for the Home abdominal builder...
Many pieces in the group which are being exhibited are replicas of objects acquired by museums abroad and in America. Among these are copies of a teapot and a water jug, now in the Danish Museum at Copenhagen; of a candle-labrum and bonbon dish, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; two bowls, one in the Detroit Muesum of Art and the other a property of the Germanic Museum itself; and finally, a large bowl in the Mussee des Beaux Arts, Paris...
Former President Millerand has been its legal defender; former President Doumer was a director of one subsidiary; present President Albert Labrum is a former director of another. So--most significantly of all--is former Premier Andre Tardieu, great leader of the Right. There was no stronger influence upon former Premier Poincare in his occupation of the Ruhr than the Comite; the present agitation over the Saar Basin springs from its headquarters. It is governed by a commission of directors, and upon this commission, as President (we must now displease another lover of anonymity), there sits the misty and cloud-wreathed...