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Gimbels sells art objects like hotcakes. With the Hearst collection already half disposed of, it knocked down and dispersed the collection of the late Clarence Mackay and the fittings of J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair. Last month when Gimbels announced a sale of 500 original Turners from the collection of the late John E. Anderson (priced from $11.75 up), buyers from all over the U.S. joined a public stampede. In two days the 500 Turners had been sold...
April 9. In the nick of time Australian Major General Iven Gifford Mackay rushed an artillery and an anti-tank regiment and five Australian battalions-altogether less than one division-into the breach. The Germans appeared in vastly superior force, and although the defenders inflicted heavy casualties for two bloody days, it was obvious that the weight was too much to bear indefinitely...
...courtly Justice J. Keiller MacKay, all this didn't add up to lunacy. Wearying of the proceedings, he suggested that claimants could make more if they could split the estate than they would by fighting on. In the settlement the church took 40%, the relatives 12½%; the three Babes (none of whom answered to the name Wallie Coughlin) split the other...
That night the estimate of prisoners taken was boosted to 30,000 by the Australian commander, slim, soft-voiced Major General Iven Giffard Mackay, who earned the title "Iven the Terrible" in World War I, spent his time between wars as headmaster of a school in Sydney...
...first tried his idea in partnership with another Catholic educator named Jesse Locke. But Locke and Hume (not to be confused with the 17th-and 18th-Century British philosophers) failed to hit it off. Then Nelson Hume met Catholic Capitalists Henry O. Havemeyer (railroads) and the late Clarence Mackay (Postal Telegraph), got an $8,000 stake to start his school. He named it for his baptismal saint, Edmund of Canterbury...