Word: macnab
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...course, forgets the day in 1930 when The MacNab won the Royal Hunt Cup. There was The MacNab, pounding toward the finish in a howling thunderstorm, when a flash of lightning struck and killed a prominent bookmaker...
...known wines & liquors. He promptly organized Trans-Europa Corp. One of the founders of Hahn Department Stores, Eugene Greenhut, and Willard Karn, oil-burner salesman famed as a bridgeplayer, started National Distributors for- Distillers, Inc. to market through cigar-stores. A new firm called Stuart, Briton & Co. has Sandy Macnab Scotch whiskey. Scions of the Hotel McAlpin family have Smirnoff vodka and other liqueurs which they will make under patriarchal Vladimir Smirnoff's direction in a factory at Bethel, Conn., hometown of the late great P. T. Barnum...
Winner just before the thunderclap of the Royal Hunt Cup was The MacNab, a 100 to 7 shot owned by John Arthur Dewar, nephew and heir of whiskey's Baron Dewar whose title died with him (TIME, April 21). In cinema theatres throughout Britain the flashed news that "their Majesties were standing a very short distance from where the lightning struck" led to much fervent singing of "God save our gracious King, Long live our noble King...
...twelve paintings, now in private British collections, which authorities consider too precious to let England lose at any price. If such a list exists it could hardly fail to include Titian's Diana, and Actaeon, Reynolds' Master Crewe, Romney's Gower Children, Raeburn's The MacNab, Gainsborough's-portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland (owned by the King), Lawrence's Lord Lyndoch, two of Lord Ellesmere's Raphaels, or Rembrandt's Rabbi in a Chair. One picture which might well have, been included but evidently was not is Sir Thomas Lawrence...
Married. William Wilkinson, 76, "Bishop of Wall Street," to Mrs. Pauline Travilla MacNab, 74; in Manhattan. Dr. Wilkinson's rotund figure is a familiar sight to noonday crowds in Manhattan's financial district, where he preaches open-air sermons from the curb...