Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when horse racing was changing from rich man's sport and poor man's ruin to big business, Metro-Goldwyn's Mayer became one of the top spenders. He sank more than $5,000,000 in horseflesh and horse farms. A man who likes to run things himself, he found that he was working harder at his hobby than at running Hollywood's richest movie studio. Last week, after convincing himself it just wasn't fun any more, L.B. sold...
...Mayer to Warner. L.B. watched intently, talked little, listened closely as his friend and lawyer, Neil McCarthy, bid up to $135,000 for the mare Busher. McCarthy figured he had a good buy even though the 1945 Horse of the Year was a semi-cripple. Said he: "I've already been offered $50,000 for her first foal. . . . What better investment could a man make?" Most other bids looked dizzily high. Mayer had picked a good time to sell...
...seemed to care least how much he spent was rival Movie Tycoon Harry M. Warner. He bought the apple of L.B.'s eye, a soft-eyed filly named Honeymoon, for $135,000. Then Warner, afflicted with the same fever Mayer once had, paid the evening's top price-$200,000-for Stepfather, a Kentucky Derby hopeful...
Although the sale ended Louis B. Mayer's big day as a racehorse owner, he was not through with horses. On a 504-acre ranch at the edge of the Mojave Desert, he still has a splendiferous breeding farm, with 15 different kinds of grass, a resident veterinarian, and everything but gold-handled pitchforks. There he keeps 74 of the finest brood mares in the land, whose offspring he will raise and sell each season as yearlings. Breeding, says L.B. now, is the side of the horse industry that is really sporting...
...many of these Germans sincerely want to become converts? The question has implications that would give a patriarch pause-and the slight, dark-haired U.S. Jewish chaplain who has to give the answers is no patriarch. But whether he likes it or not, Lieut. Mayer Abramowitz, 27, Jewish U.S. Army chaplain in Berlin, is ex officio chief rabbi of the city...